The Case of the Screaming Bishop is a 1944 American animated short film in the Phantasies series of animated cartoons produced by the Screen Gems studio for Columbia Pictures from 1939 to 1946.
[2] The title is a parody of the ninth Perry Mason mystery novel The Case of the Stuttering Bishop.
A dinosaur skeleton is stolen from the "Museum of Unnatural History" so Hairlock Combs (a parody of Sherlock Holmes) and his assistant Dr. Gotsum disguise themselves as a horse and visit the scene of the crime.
It is ultimately revealed that the thief is a concert xylophonist who is obsessed with using the skeleton as his instrument.
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