There's Good Boos To-Night/Transcript

Transcript
{The opening credits sequence opens with the word "Noveltoon" by a field and a barn. The camera pans to see a scarecrow holding a sign with "A Famous Studios Production". The camera pans again to see an owl hanging on a tree branch with the credit crew's names. The camera pans to the right and sees a black kitty upon three rocks with more credit crew's names. The camera pans once more; the word "Featuring" is shown on a branch. Under the text "Casper the Friendly Ghost", Casper the Friendly Ghost is shown sitting by the tree.} A Paramount Picture

Noveltoon

A Famous Studios Production

Direction I. Sparber

Animation Myron Waldman Morey Reden Nick Tafuri

Story Bill Turney Larry Riley

Music Winston Sharples

Scenics Anton Loeb

Narration Frank Gallop

Classified and Passed by the National Board of Review Certificate No. 04400

RCA Sound System

Featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost

There's Good Boos To-Night {Cartoon opens at a dark, foggy swamp. A group of scary eyes glow one by one in the swamp.}

Narrator: Now, isn't this a perfect setting for a spine-tingling ghost story? (camera begins panning) Well...strangely enough, this is a ghost story. (Bats appear out of nowhere. Sound effects of going "eek eek" is heard.) Do you scare easily? Do you have nightmares? Do shadows on the wall frighten you? (laughs, and camera pans to a ghost cemetery) Well, relax! This isn't that kind of a story. (Transition dissolves to see Casper the Friendly Ghost reading a book by one of the graves in the cemetery.) And just to prove it, let me introduce a ghost that is out of this world! His name was Casper.

(Camera shot shows Casper reading a book about animal friendship. Each ghost rises out of the dirt by the grave, and takes a big yawn, then mocks crows of a morning rooster. Other ghosts appear out of the cemetery, which arose. All the ghosts are preparing to scare the daylights out of people.)

Narrator: Every night with the rise of the moon, Casper's neighbors go off on their job of scaring the daylights out of people.

Ghost: Contact!

(All the ghosts imitate World War II planes, they take off. Casper watches them, but one ghost is saying "boo, boo, boo" and he's pretending to be riding on a bicycle then accidentally blowing out the candle.)

Ghost 2: Come on, Casper! Time to go out them boo people! (laughs) There's good boos tonight! Boo, boo!

(A camera shot shows a group of ghosts coming across the clouds. Then it pans to see a neighborhood. The ghosts imitate falling raindrops that speeds them up. Transition dissolves again to see Casper peeking at a grave and is refused to scare.)

Narrator: Casper doesn't want to go out and boo people! He wants to be friendly. (Transition dissolves to see Casper exiting the ghost cemetery and closing the gate.) Casper sees no future in this sort of life, so he decides to go out and make friends.

(Cut to Casper wandering out in the farm. He sees a calf having fun of his drink in the barrel.)

Casper: Uh, what's your name?

(Suddenly, the calf becomes frightened. He runs inside the barn.)

(A giant cow appears and rushes to Casper.)

Casper: Um...I'm Casper.

(This made the giant cow getting frightened, and speeds quickly and jumps all the way to the moon. Casper is lonely, but sees a skunk. Casper and the skunk gather along to be friends.)

Casper: Uh, can we be friends? Huh?

(The skunk becomes frightened too, and zips away. Smoke dust covered Casper. Cut to Casper getting washed in a barrel of bath, and holding a brush. Casper dries himself off and takes a place to sit on a log. This made Casper cry because none of the animals want to be his friend.)