Note 7: The Columbus movie "A Bank Robbery" was completed in 1933 and was shown in the Carlton Cinema on February 11, 1934 as a trailer for a documentary about the island of Bali, produced by Ingolf Boisen, Baltica Film Company. - Relating to. "Columbus", see Lars Jakobsen, cited work, pp. 38-39, 38-39. - Relating to. "Bosko": The figure was probably designed by Hugh Harman (1903?-1982), and about this can be told the following: After graduating from High School, he studied i.a. at the Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1921, he joined the Kansas City Slide Company, which was later renamed The Kansas City Film Ad Company, where his older brother, Fred, had previously worked. Fred Harman became best known for his western comics Bronc Peeler (1935) and Red Ryder (1938; "Black Mask" and "The Lonely Rider of the Prairie". See about this in Anders Hjorth Jørgensen, Inge and Karsten Just: The Comics Who - What - Where. Politikens Forlag 1976. Page 33, 34, 36, 36.) Later, the younger brother, Walker, was also employed by the company, which produced advertising slides and small primitive cartoons for the cinemas. It was in this company that Hugh Harman met Rudolph Ising, with whom he would later have a long collaboration and friendship. It was also here that he met Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

1921-1923, Hugh Harman was part of the team of cartoonists who, at the newly established Walt Disney, created the so-called "Laugh-O-Gram-Cartoons", small cartoons based on some of the popular melodies of the time, as shown during the films - these were dumb - was played by a pianist or an orchestra, and which the audience could sing along to with the texts that were for the purpose on the films.

At the end of 1923, Harman, Ising and Maxwell left Disney and formed their own cartoon studio called "Arabian Nights", but it did not prove viable until 1925. The three were then re-employed at Walt Disney, which had meanwhile moved to Los Angeles, where he and his brother, Roy, had formed Disney Brothers Studio, with an address on the ground floor of a property on Kingswell Avenue. Here, Harman and his colleagues got jobs as cartoonists and animators on the cartoon series Alice in Cartoon-land, which was distributed by Winkler Pictures through Universal, but they only managed to work on the last film in this series. In return, they were part of the launch of Disney's new cartoon series Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, which was to achieve significantly greater success than had been the case with the Alice series.

As previously mentioned, however, in 1928 a contractual dispute arose between the Disney brothers and the distributor of the Oswald films, Margaret Winkler's husband Charles Mintz, which ended with Disney losing both the Oswald series and the copyright to the character. Mintz then hired Harman and Ising, who allegedly let themselves be lured by the prospect of bigger gage and greater influence on the cartoons they got to do. Initially, the two, and probably several others, continued with the Oswald series, but not for more than about a year. In 1929, Harman and Ising re-established their own cartoon studio, Harman & Ising Productions, and produced cartoons for Leon Schlesinger, a distributor for Warner Brothers.

For the sake of good order, it must be added here that the course of events regarding. Winkler and Mintz does not appear to be entirely correctly portrayed by Jakob Stegelmann, cited work, p. 40. Jakob Stegelmann seems to have overlooked the fact that Margaret Winkler married Charles Mintz during the production of the Alice series.

In 1930, Harman & Ising produced the first cartoons in the Warner Bros. series Looney Tunes, and as mentioned also the very first cartoon in the Bosko series. The following year, they also introduced the series Merrie Melodies, which in both cases had Leon Schlesinger as distributor. The two series were probably intended as a counterpart to Disney's famous cartoon series "Silly Symphony". It was also mentioned this year that Harman & Ising created the first cartoon in the Bosko series, "Bosko The Talk-ink Kid". But already in the same year, 1931, the series was so far left to other Warner directors and animators, especially to Fritz Freleng and Robert McKimson. It probably happened because Harman and Ising had undertaken to make "'Mile, Darn Ya, Smile!' (1932; "Foxy's Tram", A Merrie Melody).

In 1933, Harman and Ising resumed the Bosko series themselves and produced i.a. "Bosko's Dizzy Date", "Bosko The Speed King" and "Bosko's Nightmare". But already the same year, Harman and Ising left Warner Brothers and instead signed a contract with MGM. In 1934, they made "Bosko's Parlor Pranks" with several films in the series. In 1935, they created "Hey Hey Fever" and many other cartoons, which were part of their new series "Happy Harmonies". It was this year that Anson Dyer in England set up and became the manager of the new cartoon studio, Anglia Films, for which he produced the Sam Small films.

In 1938, Harman & Ising was given a special task, namely, to produce the cartoon "Merbabies" in Walt Disney's series "Silly Symphonies". That same year, they were each producing at the MGM Animation Unit, and their direct, daily collaboration thus ceased. Hugh Harman continued with cartoons such as "Peace on Earth", which even managed to be nominated for an Oscar. He also continued with the Bosko series and cartoons in the series "Happy Harmonies".

Presumably as a direct result of America joining the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941, Harman left the partnership with MGM and formed his own company, Hugh Harman Productions, which aimed to produce instructional, educational and propaganda film for the government.

After the war, Harman mainly continued to make commercials, but without much success. He then left the cartoon industry and made commercials and commercials instead. In 1980 he was referred to as a pensioner.

Hugh Harman will i.a. be known for glorious entertainment cartoons, such as: Alias St. Nick (1935; "Santa's Deputy"), "The Chinese Nightingale" (1935; "Den kinesiske Nattergal"), "Little Cheeser" (1936; "The Little Muse Kid"), "The Early Bird and the Worm" (1936; "Fooled by a Worm ”),“ The Early Worm Gets the Bird” (1937; “ Først til Møllen ”),“The Bookworm ”(1939;“ Bogormen”), The Little Mole” (1941; “Den lille Muldvarp”). Preston Blair was the animator on several of these cartoons.

relating to. Rudolph Ising (1903-1992), then began his cartoon career largely similar to Hugh Harmans. After High School, he was hired by The Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he came to work with Hugh Harman and the others mentioned above. Thereafter, his career ran in parallel with Harmans.

Ising will also be known for a number of wonderful cartoons, partly those he produced in collaboration with Harman and partly his 'own' cartoons, such as. "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep" (1939; "Bjørnen, der ikke kunne sove"), which had his own character Barney Bear as the main character throughout a series of short cartoons. "The Homeless Flea" (1940; "Den hjemløse Flue"), "Milky Way" (1940; "Mælke Vejen"), for which he received an Oscar. 1940 also saw the first MGM cartoon in a series that would soon become world famous: "Puss Gets The Boot", becoming the first film in the series with Tom & Jerry. However, the next film in this series was taken over and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who almost came to live with this series for most of their lives.

In 1942, Ising left MGM and joined The Hal Roach Studio, where he was assigned to direct the production of training films for The U.S. Air Force. After the war he left the cartoon industry and worked for a few years in the advertising industry. In 1980, like Hugh Harman, he retired and lived in the Los Angeles area, near his old friend and colleague of 60 years.