Congo Jazz

Congo Jazz
Directed byHugh Harman
Rudolf Ising
Produced byHugh Harman
Rudolf Ising
Associate Producer:
Leon Schlesinger
StarringBernard B. Brown
(uncredited)
Music byFrank Marsales
Animation byCarman Maxwell
Paul Smith
Color processBlack and White
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • July 26, 1930 (1930-07-26)
(earliest known date)
Running time
6:18
LanguageEnglish

Congo Jazz is the second title in the Looney Tunes series starring Bosko. It was distributed by Warner Bros. and The Vitaphone Corporation. It was released as early as July 26, 1930. Congo Jazz was the first cartoon to feature Bosko's falsetto voice that he would use for the bulk of the series' run (the previous Bosko short, Sinkin' in the Bathtub, had used a derisive African-American dialect). It has the earliest instance of a "trombone gobble" in animation.