Animals and inanimate objects talk and sing here and there: even the pumpkin, just before being turned into a coach, grows a jack o'lantern face and sings about how glad he is not to be carved up for a pie. But the cartoon still finds room for some irreverent jokes, modern references and classic surreal Fleischer gags. (Sometimes it even simplifies it – for example, there's no Stepmother in sight, only the two Stepsisters.) Dialogue is sparing, with most of the story sung rather than spoken, and the musical style is gentle and sweet, with the waltz-time theme song, "I'm Just A Poor Cinderella" (a guaranteed ear-worm) composed in the style of an old romantic parlor ballad. It faithfully retells the familiar tale in simple, broad strokes. In no way a definitive Cinderella, but endearing. Technical innovations aside, this is an endearing cartoon short. Cinderella's ride in her coach to the ball and her whirling with the Prince on the ballroom floor are especially striking examples of this technology. This cartoon also makes good use of the stereoptical camera, Fleischer's equivalent of Disney's multiplane camera designed to give the animation more depth: some of the aforementioned lavish backgrounds were actual, physical 3D models, rotated behind the animation cells. To show off the color to the fullest, even Betty/Cinderella's hair is colored red instead of its usual black. But even with this limited palette, they create a charming little fairy-tale world with what another reviewer has described as a stained glass-like quality, and with lavishly detailed, beautiful storybook backgrounds, even though most of the characters are drawn in Fleischer's usual bouncy, cartoony and slightly grotesque style. Final appearance in the Screen Songs series.Because Disney had an exclusive contract with Technicolor at the time, though, the Fleischers used Cinecolor instead: a two-strip process which produced only two colors, red and blue-green.Popular Melodies (Music by Arthur Jarrett) Romantic Melodies (Music by Arthur Tracy) Rudy Vallee Melodies (Music by Rudy Vallée) You Try Somebody Else (Music by Ethel Merman) Only entry featuring Betty Boop in the Talkartoons series to be in the public domain.Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Music by Ethel Merman) Named #20 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.Minnie the Moocher (music by Cab Calloway) Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (music by The Round Towners Quartet) Bimbo's girlfriend is largely a generic one-off, but is drawn to resemble Betty in a few close-ups that were likely inserted later.A Bimbo cartoon, seemingly held over from earlier in production- Bimbo appears in a primitive design.First use of the song "Sweet Betty" which would become the theme song for the Betty Boop series.Surviving master negative has original opening title card intact.Final time Betty Boop is depicted as a dog.Betty Boop appears briefly topless in a bathtub.First time Betty Boop is depicted as a human as opposed to a dog- with dog ears replaced by earrings.Kitty from Kansas City (music by Rudy Vallée) First time Betty's full name appears on the titles, stylized as "Betty-Boop".Placed at #37 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.First time Betty is named, although only as "Betty" (no surname is given).First time Betty Boop is seen in her slender physique.Willard Bowsky, Al Eugster, Grim Natwick (uncredited) Willard Bowsky, Ted Sears, Grim Natwick (uncredited) Note: see the Talkartoons and Screen Songs filmography for additional entries in the series.īetty Boop Essential Collection (BBEC) Volume 2 1īetty Boop Definitive Collection (BBDC) VHS Volume 1 Appearances in Talkartoons and Screen Songs series It includes the long-lost recently discovered cartoon Honest Love and True. In May 2022, animator and archivist Steve Stanchfield released a Blu-Ray collection titled "The Other Betty Boop Cartoons, Volume 1" through his label Thunderbean Animation, which features public domain cartoons that were not on the Olive Films sets. ![]() ![]() Volume 3 was released on April 29, 2014, and Volume 4 on September 30, 2014. Volume 1 was released on August 20, 2013, and Volume 2 on September 24, 2013. ![]() All of them were released by many labels but there were no such releases for the Betty Boop cartoons on DVD and Blu-ray, up until 2013 when Olive Films released the non- public domain cartoons in four "Essential Collection" volumes, although they were restored from the original television internegatives that carried the altered opening and closing credits. She was featured in 126 theatrical cartoons between 19 (90 in her own series and 36 in the Talkartoons and Screen Songs series). The following is a list of films and other media in which Betty Boop has appeared.
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