Bosko's Picture Show is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Hugh Harman and Friz Freleng.
The short is notorious for a line where the title character appears to say the word "fuck," sparking debate on whether it was deliberate or the result of a technical error occluding a more innocuous term.
[3][4] While Hugh Harman is credited with directing the film, animation historians believe that Friz Freleng was his uncredited co-director.
Actually the attending world leaders are depicted engaging in hand-to-hand combat, while a ring announcer gives a blow-by-blow description of the action.
[4] The final scene of the newsreel takes place in "Pretzel, Germany", where Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is depicted pursuing Jimmy Durante with an axe in hand.
Hitler is depicted as a ruthless buffoon wearing lederhosen and a swastika armband, while the large-nosed Durante, an apparent nod to the Jewish nose stereotype,[5] shouts, "Am I mortified!"
He then "leaps off a cliff and onto a train passing underneath", ending with his victim on top of a runaway railroad car.
Animator Mark Kausler has studied the lip movements of the character and insisted that "hawk" was the intended word.
"[3] According to the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 DVD set the subtitles for that scene read, "The dirty fox!
Fans have theorized that the inclusion of a really nasty curse word was most likely a parting farewell shot by Harman and Ising to Warner Bros. animation head Leon Schlesinger with whom they disputed over various matters.
[4] Aside from newsreels, the short is argued to be the first depiction of Hitler in an American film,[6][7][8] although there is an earlier appearance in the August 1933 short Cubby's World Flight by the Van Beuren Studios; while flying over Germany, Cubby Bear receives smiles and waves from both Chancellor Hitler and President Paul von Hindenburg.
[7] This cartoon was released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 DVD set, uncut and digitally remastered.