There's Good Boos To-Night
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There's Good Boos To-Night is a 1948 American film directed by Izzy Sparber narrated by Frank Gallop
Frank Gallop
Frank Gallop was an American radio and television personality.-Radio:Frank Gallop went into broadcasting by chance...

 featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. As his name indicates, he is a ghost, but is quite personable...

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Plot summary

The cartoon opens with Casper sitting beside his grave which is decorated with a prorate with to Bible segment 'love thy neighbor', reading a book on 'Animal friends. While the ghosts at the cemetery where Casper is buried are getting ready around midnight to go off and scare people Casper is trying to make friends with animals instead of humans. The ghosts leave the cemetery and so does Casper who wanders off looking for friends in a couple animals. However, when Casper tries to make friends with a baby calf it run away calling its "mama", when the mother goes up to Casper it runs away from the farm and over the moon.

Later Casper comes across a Skunk
Skunk
Skunks are mammals best known for their ability to secrete a liquid with a strong, foul odor. General appearance varies from species to species, from black-and-white to brown or cream colored. Skunks belong to the family Mephitidae and to the order Carnivora...

 and asks it to be friends but it just sprays him and runs away. After cleaning himself Casper sit on a log and ultimately cries because none of the animals want to be his friend. While Casper is sitting on the log he catches the attention of a small fox
Fox
Fox is a common name for many species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family. Foxes are small to medium-sized canids , characterized by possessing a long narrow snout, and a bushy tail .Members of about 37 species are referred to as foxes, of which only 12 species actually belong to...

cub who feels sorry for Casper's sorrow. Casper and the little fox quickly bond and he names the cub "Ferdie" and considers him to be his very best friend. Casper and Ferdie's relationship is put in tremendous jeopardy however while they are playing a game of Hide and Seek. While Ferdie is hiding a hunter and two of his hunting dogs come and try to kill little Ferdie. They pursue him as fast as possible until he is out of breath and starts panting.

While the hunter is firing gunshots towards Ferdie, Casper notices they are trying to kill him and flies in the hunter's direction and demands that he leaves Ferdie alone. When the dogs and hunter see Casper, they flee in terror. Casper begins to look for Ferdie to tell him that everything is fine, however Casper finds that he's too late and Ferdie is dead, for the bullets went through Casper and killed Ferdie. Casper starts mourning in pain because he lost "the only friend he ever had in his whole life." Casper returns to the cemetery where he has buried Ferdie next to his own gravestone. Casper begins mourning in pain until he sees that Ferdie has returned as a ghost himself. Upon realizing this, Casper screams for joy because he has been reunited with Ferdie and the short ends with the narrator simply saying that "Casper and Ferdie lived happily ever after."

Cast

According to certain sources, American radio and voice actress Cecil H. Roy provided the voice of Casper for this short. Sid Raymond provided some extra voices for the ghosts at the beginning. Jack Mercer, most famous for providing the voice of Popeye during the 1930's and 40's, provided the voices and sounds of the ghosts, the calf and Ferdie Fox for the short. It was narrated by Frank Gallop.
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