Bosko - Warners First Big Star

Created in 1927 during the time of sound synchronisation, Hugh Harman & Rudolph Ising gave birth to Bosko - Warner Bros first animated character. In 1929, pair produced a short pilot cartoon 'Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid'. This film showed the character of Bosko beginning drawn by his animator (Ising himself). The cartoon demonstrated how animation had adapted to the new development of sound. Showing off, this cartoon was the first in animation history to have soundtrack - synchronised speech and dancing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosko,_the_Talk-Ink_Kid].

Although the cartoon had no real plot line, it was very popular with its audience. The all singing, all dancing Bosko quickly became loved in a similar way to Max Fleischer's 'Koko the clown'. Although the plot line (or lack of plot line) differs greatly, the animation technique is almost identical to the work of Max Fleischer's 'Out of the inkwell' series -  with the cartoon beginning as live action and ending with Bosko beginning returned to his inkwell.

Bosko and Koko comparison

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosko,_the_Talk-Ink_Kid
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/reviews/bosko/text.htm
http://bosko.toonzone.net/