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There's Good Boos To-Night
Directed byI. Sparber[1]
Animation director:
Myron Waldman (uncredited)
Story byBill Turner
Larry Riley[1]
Produced bySam Buchwald[1]
I. Sparber (uncredited)
Seymour Kneitel (uncredited)
Bill Tytla (uncredited)
StarringCecil Roy
Sid Raymond[1]
Jack Mercer
Narrated byFrank Gallop[1]
Music byWinston Sharples
Animation byMyron Waldman
Morey Reden
Nick Tafuri[1]
Wm. B. Pattengill (uncredited)
Layouts byAnton Loeb
Backgrounds byAnton Loeb[1]
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • April 23, 1948 (1948-04-23)
Running time
8:47
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

There's Good Boos To-Night is a 1948 animated short directed by Izzy Sparber and narrated by Frank Gallop, featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost.[2] It is the second cartoon in the Casper series.[3] The title is a play on "There's good news tonight", the sign-on catchphrase of radio commentator Gabriel Heatter.[4]

Plot

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The cartoon opens with Casper sitting beside his grave, decorated with the Bible segment 'love thy neighbor', reading a book on animal friends.[5] Around midnight, while the ghosts at the cemetery, where Casper is buried, are getting ready to go off and "boo" people, Casper is trying to make friends with animals instead of humans. The ghosts leave the cemetery, as does Casper, who wanders off looking for friends in a couple of animals. However, when Casper tries to make friends with a baby calf, it runs away, calling for its "mama"; when the calf's mother goes up to Casper, she runs away from the farm and jumps over the moon.[6]

Later, Casper comes across a skunk and asks it to be friends, but it sprays him and runs away in terror. Casper sits on a log and cries because none of the animals wants to be his friend. While Casper is seated on the log, he catches the attention of a small fox cub who feels sorry for him. Casper and the fox quickly bond, and he names the cub "Ferdie" and considers him his best friend. However, Casper and Ferdie's relationship soon becomes jeopardised while playing a game of Hide and Seek. While Ferdie is hiding, a hunter and two of his hunting dogs come and try to kill Ferdie. They pursue him until he is exhausted and out of breath.

While the hunter is firing gunshots toward Ferdie, Casper flies in the hunter's direction and demands they leave Ferdie alone. When the dogs and the hunter see Casper, they flee in terror. Casper looks for Ferdie to tell him that the hunters are gone but discovers that Ferdie is dead as the bullets had passed through Casper's incorporeal form and hit him. Casper cradles the fox's body and breaks down in tears, having lost the only friend he has ever had in his life. Casper returns to the cemetery, where he buries Ferdie next to his gravestone. Casper begins mourning but soon discovers that Ferdie has returned as a ghost. Reunited, Casper and Ferdie live happily ever after.[7]

Additional voice cast

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  2. ^ My 13 Favorite Spooky Cartoons, by PAUL DINI|13th Dimension, Comics, Creators, Culture
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 63–64. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ Radio Days - Gabriel Heatter
  5. ^ How Did Casper the Friendly Ghost Die?|Mental Floss
  6. ^ Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend - Google Books (pg.46-47)
  7. ^ FilmAffinity
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