Long-lost and shelved Warner Bros. cartoon star: Buster Bear

A special kudos to cartoon historian David Gerstein and Thunderbean owner and animation teacher Steve Stanchfield for their precocious efforts to preserving such lost and rare treasures like the cartoon character telling below.

But seriously, there is an eerie of weirdness by just take a look of the "Buster Bear" cartoon character on motion; seen him rubbering its arms and neck, cow udder gag, random musical numbers on the stage, etc. and everything felt fall apart to the "actual" early Warner Bros. cartoons or from others major studios of this era we'll know, if it's possible. The lack of any distinct characterization, sense of story or personality have to be something. Buster Bear is a creation from John "Scarfoot" McCrory. As it was analyzed in the Cartoon Research's post in the morning, only three of him was originally made but never been showed in entirety... until now.

The scans were started to get surface on December 4th 2016. Some YouTubers put such mentions about but nothing seems to be accurate or legit. The mere existence of Buster Bear is a mystery. Because he don't have the joyful lunacy of Bosko or anything done better by the Hugh Harman/Rudolph Ising team from the same period.

One start to groan that the short itself was merely a parody, but in spite of that, the low level of synchronization of sound, the lifeless nature of the bear character (Is he's gay?) or anything featuring in this short is doom to be a total failure. It's only interesting because this one is a real rarity, at least a much agreable discovery than when in 2015, a lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short from 1928 was founded and that everyone credited Walt Disney for it. But I'll doubt that Walt himself was the sole responsible to it, by always credited and honored his longtime friend Ub Iwerks to have operated his business of animation studio... with only $300 in hand. For 1928, it was lots of dough to spending on!

But nevertheless, this is why the early sound/Talkies of animation turning me like an era of agreable innocence and experimentation with the new proccess, when silent movies actors having to find newer opportunities once the Silent movies fad been dated. For once, it's a discovery of "lost" animation gem that deserve to be revealed, from an unseen perspective of the early history of the Warner Bros. studio.