Author: anathema
Added: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:16:40 -0800
Duration: 395

Happy You and Merry Me is one of a series of animated short films featuring Betty Boop produced by the Fleischer Studios during the 1930s. A stray kitten wanders into Betty Boop's house, gets sick on candy, and is cured with catnip by Betty and Pudgy the pup

Author: anathema
Added: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:16:40 -0800
Duration: 413

The Old Man of the Mountain is a 1933 animated short in the Betty Boop series, produced by Fleischer Studios. Featuring special guests Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, the short was originally released to theaters on August 4, 1933 by Paramount Productions. Calloway, who voices all of the characters in the cartoon save for Betty herself (voiced by Mae Questel) performs all of the music in the cartoon, including three of his own songs. The Old Man of the Mountain was the third and final of the Fleischer cartoons pairing Betty Boop and Cab Calloway; the others are Minnie the Moocher and Snow-White. As in the other two cartoons, film footage of Cab Calloway was rotoscoped, or traced into animation, to provide the dance steps for the Old Man during his duet of "You've Got to Hi-De-Hi".

Author: anathema
Added: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:26:24 -0800
Duration: 335

Betty flies to Japan to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a kimono, and sings it again in Japanese. The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan. Animator Myron Waldman, worried that Betty's gestures might offend the conservative Japanese audience, asked a group of Japanese college students to review his work. Having Betty sing in Japanese also allowed her to slip a racy comment past the Hays Office: one of the lyrics in the Japanese song translates to "Come to bed with me and we'll boop-oop-a-doop!"

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:52:38 -0800
Duration: 424

Snow White is a 1933 animated short film in the Betty Boop series from Max Fleischer's Fleischer Studios. Dave Fleischer was credited as director, although virtually all the animation was done by Roland Crandall. Crandall received the opportunity to make Snow White on his own as a reward for his several years of devotion to the Fleischer studio, and the resulting film is considered both his masterwork and an important milestone of The Golden Age of American animation.

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:52:38 -0800
Duration: 383

Whoops! I'm a Cowboy! is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. Betty's weakling boyfriend Wiffle Piffle proposes to her. Betty turns him down, saying she's only interested in a "bronco-busting" he-man. Whiffle sets off for a dude ranch to learn how to become a real cowboy. The first of only two appearances by Wiffle Piffle. His second was in The Hot Air Salesman (1937).

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:52:38 -0800
Duration: 369

Betty Boop and the Little King is a 1936 Fleischer Studio animated short film, starring Betty Boop and featuring Otto Soglow's Little King. A special opera performance is held for the Little King and his queen, but the diminutive monarch is soon bored by the music. He sneaks out in search of some new entertainment, and spots a sign for Betty Boop at the local vaudeville theatre. After some difficulties getting a pretzel from a vendor, the curtain comes up on Betty's Wild West show. Betty performs several tricks with her horse, entrancing the monarch. He joins Betty on stage for a song and dance number, just in time to be caught by the angry queen. The monarchs leave in the royal carriage, with Betty (hiding on the fender) holding the Little King's hand.

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:52:38 -0800
Duration: 480

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. The instrumental title theme (also known as "Parade of the Tin Soldiers") was composed by Leon Jessel, and is popular as Christmas music. A large factory complex struggles to produce a single package, which is rushed to a toy store. The box opens, and out steps a Betty Boop doll. The other toys come to life, parade around to the music of March of the Toys and crown her their queen. But there's a big stuffed toy of King Kong who begins breaking things up. Eventually, the big ape is defeated, and the (somewhat damaged) toys resume their parade.

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:52:38 -0800
Duration: 429

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You is a 1932 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Koko the Clown and Bimbo. The cartoon features music by and a special guest appearance from jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 363

Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy for Mayor; he wins by one vote, but finds politics is no picnic. Urban renewal is parodied.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 385

She Wronged Him Right is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop. Betty Boop appears in a stage play, complete with obvious theatrical backdrops. Betty doesn't have the money to pay the mortgage, so the dastardly villain Heeza Rat threatens to forclose unless Betty agrees to marry him. The villain threatens Betty in various ways until the handsome and muscular Fearless Fred comes to her rescue.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 395

Is My Palm Read is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Koko the Clown and Bimbo. Betty visits Bimbo the fortune teller for some advice, but Bimbo is only interested in making time with Betty. Bimbo's crystal ball predicts that Betty will be shipwrecked on a desert isle, but rescued by Bimbo. When Bimbo reveals himself by removing his fake beard, a happy Betty embraces him. Unfortunately, a group of ghosts burst in on this scene, and chase the two to the desert isle. Betty and Bimbo eventually escape from the ghosts by tricking them into going off a cliff into the sea.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 453

Judge for a Day is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. Betty is the cleaner a the local courthouse. On the bus ride to work one day, she grows tired of all the liberties her fellow citizens take. She falls asleep and dreams about what she'd do if she were the judge. Among her decrees: a thoughtless smoker learns about second-hand smoke the hard way, and an obnoxious celebrity impersonator is rewarded by having his ears blasted with imitations of Tarzan and the Shadow.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 372

The Impractical Joker is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. Betty Boop is baking a cake, when Irving the practical joker comes for a visit. Betty becomes the victim of such pranks as shaking a false hand and getting squirted in the face. Betty calls on Grampy for help and he quickly rigs his apartment to counteract Irving's pranks and send him on his way. Irving gets the last laugh, when Grampy lights the candle on the cake. Irving replaced the candle with a firecracker before he left. Jack Mercer (the voice of Popeye) provides the voice for Irving.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 327

Swat the Fly is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Pudgy the Puppy. While Betty tries to bake a cake, an annoying fly pesters Betty and Pudgy the Pup. Betty begins tossing gobs of dough at the fly, but the fly keeps escaping. In the end, Betty catches the fly in a lump of dough, but the entire house is a shambles. Then the fly manages to free itself once more.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 542

Stop That Noise is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. A sleepless Betty can't take the noise of the city any more, and heads out into the country for some peace and quiet. She soon discovers that the country has its own problems. In the end, Betty returns to her apartment and happily falls asleep amidst the sounds of the city.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 369

House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy. Betty wakes up after the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shambles, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy. Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain!).

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 407

Betty Boop with Henry, the Funniest Living American is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Carl Anderson's Henry. The short was also released as Betty Boop with Henry. Betty runs the local pet store. Silent Henry wants to buy a puppy, but only has two cents. Soft-hearted Betty offers to let Henry work off the difference at her store. She soon regrets this decision after Henry causes a ruckus trying to manage the pets. In the end, Henry recaptures some escaped birds (by letting them eat seeds off his head), and Betty rewards him with a puppy.

Author: anathema
Added: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:23 -0800
Duration: 452

Morning, Noon and Night is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. The short opens with a brief live action segment featuring David Rubinoff and his orchestra. A badly hung-over sun (complete with ice-pack on his head) slowly rises over Betty Boop's farm. Betty's farm is a sanctuary for birds, but the sanctuary is soon threatened by the arrival of the Tom Kat's Social Club, a group of hungry cats looking for an easy meal. They chase a helpless chick back to Betty's farm, who alerts Betty to the danger. The cats initially wreak destruction on the farm, and easily overpower Betty. When the sickly rooster finds out what's happening, he quickly turns into a fighter (boxing gloves and all), and pummels the cats. The other birds join in on the beating, and chase away the hapless cats. The rooster defeats the cat's leader and Betty declares him the winner.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 621

Poor Cinderella is a 1934 Fleischer Studio animated short film featuring Betty Boop. The first entry in the Color Classics series, Poor Cinderella was Fleischer Studio's first color film, and the only appearance of Betty Boop in color during the Fleischer era. In this retelling of the Cinderella story, Betty is the title character, a poor young woman forced to be the virtual slave of her two ugly stepsisters. Betty/Cinderella is visited by her fairy godmother, who grants her wish to attend the prince's ball, giving her beautiful clothes, a carriage, and the traditional glass slippers. When midnight strikes, she rushes out of the ball, leaving behind her shoe. The prince searches the land for the woman whose foot fits the slipper, and finds his "poor Cinderella." The two are married, and the ugly step-sisters are left to argue with each other until the credits smack their heads together.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 528

In a live action sequence, a reporter (played by Dave Fleischer) interviewing Max Fleischer asks him about his latest animated star Betty Boop. Max obligingly draws Betty "out of the inkwell" and asks her to perform a couple of numbers. Song and dance numbers from Stopping the Show, Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle, and The Old Man of the Mountain are used. In the end, Betty jumps back into the inkwell, accidentally splashing ink into the reporter's face.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 337

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are working out in a storage room equipped with 1930's vintage exercise equipment. Betty sings the song "Keep Your Girlish Figure" and Little Jimmy responds with a verse "If you're thin, don't worry over that. Just begin to laugh and you'll grow fat". Betty starts using a belt exercise machine, but gets into trouble when its control gets stuck. She sends Little Jimmy to get an electrician, but along the way he gets distracted and the object of his search keeps changing - magician, politician, musician etc. Fortunately, he eventually returns to Betty and accidentally pulls the plug, freeing her from the exercise machine. By this time, she is so thin her figure is like Olive Oyl and she looks so funny that she and Little Jimmy can't stop laughing. In keeping with Little Jimmy's song, the two of them are soon as fat and round as balloons.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 390

Betty runs for the office of President against Mr. Nobody. Both candidates state their platform through song and dance. In answer to various problems and political issues, Mr Nobody consistently promises that "Nobody" will solve the problem. Betty's promises for improvements are shown, including door to door trolley stops, improved conditions for keeping the streets clean, and even a giant umbrella to protect the whole city from rain. Betty also promises to tame a split and incorrigible Congress made up of donkey Democrats and elephant Republicans, and offers a simple solution for prison reform: she will transform each hardened criminal into a limp-wristed sissy. Betty's campaign promises win the crowd over, and she is voted into the White House by a landslide. A large parade is held in the new President's honor, as she thanks one and all.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 335

"Uncle Max" (Max Fleischer) draws Betty and Pudgy out of the inkwell. Pudgy is tired and unwilling to perform on Betty's command. Betty uses pen and ink to draw a machine that give Pudgy more pep. Unfortunately, the machine soon runs amok, speeding up not only Pudgy and Betty, but the entire city as well.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 407

Betty, while reading a book of Mother Goose stories, wishes she visit sucha a wonderful place. Betty's wish is granted when Mother Goose appears, and gives her a tour of Mother Goose Land. Betty has a wonderful time until Little Miss Muffet's spider chases her, with lecherous ends in mind.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 355

Betty Boop drawn in 1939. This cartoon might be her best from that year. Her house is invaded by lively crows and she finds ways to handle the problem.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 417

At Betty Boop's Animal Hospital, various animals have appropriate ailments - a giraffe has a sore throat, a herring is pickled, etc. Morale becomes a problem until Professor Grampy comes to the rescue with a song and dance to cure the blues.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 388

Betty and Pudgy are on the roof of their tenement building, trying to get her pet pigeons back in their cage. One stubborn bird refuses to return to the roost, despite Betty's please. Pudgy, imagining himself a might hunting dog, attempts to catch the bird, with little success. When the pigeon gives Pudgy the slip, the little dog eventually wanders into the forest, where he falls asleep from exhaustion. The pigeon takes pity on Pudgy, and flies him back to Betty's home. When Pudgy wakes up on the roof, he tears up the picture of the hunting dog in frustration.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 405

At the inventor's show, Betty, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown demonstrate a variety of gadgets, including: * The spot remover — a large steam-powered device that removes the spot by cutting a hole in the fabric. * The cigarette snuffer — a mechanical foot snuffs out the cigarette, then a mechanical hand sweeps it up. * The soup silencer — parts from a music box are installed on a spoon to convert the slurps to music. * The sweet corn regulator — a typewriter is adapted to position the corn for easy eating. * The voice recorder * The self-threading sewing machine — a mechanical hand and eyeball thread the needle. When the automated sewing machine gets out of control and proceeds to sew various things together, Bimbo and Betty escape via an umbrella that turns into a helicopter.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 393

Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle of a white rabbit. She "awakes" just in time to follow the rabbit through the looking glass into a modern wonderland. Betty meets most of the traditional inhabitants of Wonderland and sings "How Do You Do" (to the tune of "Everyone Says I Love You") to them. When the Jabberwocky steals Betty away, everyone comes to her rescue. Betty wakes up back in her living room, just in time to prevent the white rabbit from again escaping from her puzzle.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 371

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures. With her overt sexual appeal, Betty was a hit with theater-goers, and despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s, she remains popular today.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 381

The story begins with a crowd of cartoon characters filling the seats in a stadium. We soon learn that today's event is an auto race (in the style of Barney Oldfield). Betty, Bimbo, and Koko are among the drivers, but Betty arrives late, explaining that it is because she has a cold. Even though she has a cold, Betty wins by a nose, being the only car over the finish line after a sneeze-induced pile-up.

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 370

Betty Boop runs out of gas while driving through hillbilly country. When she goes up to a nearby shack to ask for help, the locals are suspicious of the stranger, but Betty wins them with her dancing. Soon the entire clan is making music and dancing. Betty's new friends help her on her way by filling her gas tank with a jug of "corn dripp'ns".

Author: anathema
Added: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:52:35 -0800
Duration: 384

A noisy cat is preventing Betty Boop from getting any sleep at night. When Betty asks the cat to be quiet, it replies "not ne-ow". Pudgy tries to chase the cat away, and after much trouble, he seemingly succeeds . . . until all the cats in the neighborhood appear outside Betty's window.

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:52:38 -0800
Duration: 419

Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm on my way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop - all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party.

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:52:38 -0800
Duration: 487

After a short live action performance by the Royal Samoans, Bimbo appears on screen playing a ukelele while riding in a motorboat. The motorboat goes faster and faster, until it crashes into a tropical island. Bimbo flies into the air and lands in another boat, this one containing a topless (except for a strategically placed lei) and dark-skinned Betty Boop.

Author: anathema
Added: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:52:38 -0800
Duration: 389

Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. But the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.

Author: anathema
Added: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:52:38 -0800
Duration: 382

Popeye the Sailor snores while he sleeps, which disturbs Mouse, who is also trying to sleep. A war breaks out between Popeye and Mouse which Mouse eventually wins. Animation by Al Eugster and George Germanetti. Story by Irving Spector. Music by Winston Sharples.

Author: anathema
Added: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:52:38 -0800
Duration: 467

In 1932, Calloway recorded the song for a Fleischer Studios Talkartoon short cartoon, also called Minnie the Moocher, starring Betty Boop and Bimbo. Calloway and his band provides most of the short's score, and appear in the short themselves in a live-action introduction. The thirty-second live-action segment is the earliest-known film footage of Calloway. In the cartoon, Betty decides to run away from her harsh parents, and Bimbo comes with her. While walking away from home, Betty and Bimbo wind up in a spooky area, and hide in a cave. A ghost walrus—whose gyrations were rotoscoped from footage of Calloway dancing—appears to them, and begins to sing "Minnie the Moocher," with many fellow ghosts following along. After singing the whole number, the ghosts chase Betty and Bimbo all the way back to Betty's home. While Betty is hiding under the covers of her bedsheets, her runaway note is torn up and the remaining letters read "Home Sweet Home." (Wikipedia)

Author: anathema
Added: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:33:20 -0800
Duration: 363

Popeye's nephews want to play with fireworks on July 4th, but Popeye tries to dissuade them. They manage to light some off and get into trouble. Popeye saves the day. Animation by Tom Johnson and Frank Endres. Story by Caryl Meyer. Music by Winston Sharples.