It was pretty funny and very "inventive", pun intended. "This was my first look in over 40 years at a Betty Boop cartoon.and I was impressed. Kane's voice and appearance were thought to be a. The song was written for Good Boy by the songwriting team Kalmar and Ruby. Her signature song was 'I Wanna Be Loved by You' (1928), featured in the 1928 stage musical Good Boy. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviĪ message from "CCTheMovieman" rated it 5 stars. Helen Kane (born Helen Clare Schroeder, Aug1 September 26, 1966) was an American singer and actress. The show's number-one attraction, a very powerful self-threading sewing machine, knits up the proceedings quite nicely. Betty herself demonstrates a most unusual voice recorder with a performance of "Keep a Little Song Handy". Highlights of the program include a pig-powered pipe organ, a Rube Goldberg-style spot remover, a cigarette snuffer, a soup silencer, a sweet-corn regulator, and an egg-frying device, replete with optional hen and rooster. A short clip from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode " A Fishful of Dollars".Īssisted by ticket-taker Bimbo the Dog and product-demonstrator Koko the Clown, Betty Boop stages a "Big Invention Show".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. The self-threading sewing machine - a mechanical hand and eyeball thread the needle.The sweet corn regulator - a typewriter is adapted to position the corn for easy eating. Hines was the original voice actress for Fleischer's cartoon character Betty Boop, whilst she was touring vaudeville she was heard by vocalist Billy Murray, an employee at Fleischer studio who suggested she was the right choice for the voice of the character 8 she made her who debut in the cartoon short Dizzy Dishes in 1930, studio head Max Fl.The soup silencer - parts from a music box are installed on a spoon to convert the slurps to music.The cigarette snuffer - a mechanical foot sniffs out the cigarette, then a mechanical hand sweeps it up.The spot remover - a large steam-powered device that removes the spot by cutting a hole in the fabric.This cartoon was first theatrically released with the Mae West film She Done Him Wrong.Īt the inventor's show, Betty, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown demonstrate a variety of gadgets, including: It is a cartoon worth watching all the same and I recommend it to people who like old cartoons with singing pretty much instead of dialogue.Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film, featuring Betty Boop. Later in the episode, Barnacle Bill meets Betty Boop as a dog and says some rather horrible things to her in his singing, which is why this cartoon is not particularly suitable for children (although I am not sure if this cartoon was directed at family, children or adults). The ship briefly docks and the captain calls all the crew (one of them looking suspiciously like Mickey Mouse) and tells them that they cannot leave the ship.
The episode starts in a cartoony way (normal for the time), where the crew are singing about being on the sea. He is an annoying character in the way that he is very arrogant. We have here the first appearance of Bimbo, who calls himself "Barnacle Bill", in this episode. Here, she is not the main character, but she appears enough to glean more of her personality than "Dizzy Dishes". In that and this cartoon, she is a dog (as one can tell from the dog ears).
Here we have the second appearance of Betty Boop, released less than a month after her first cartoon, "Dizzy Dishes". I enjoyed this cartoon for what it is worth, as I do most of the cartoons of this era I watch. Rothschild (born Ma October 22, 1981) credits variously as Little Ann Little, Annabel Little and Ann Little Werner, was an American vaudevillian, voice actress and singer who gained fame in the 1930s as the voice of Betty Boop, taking over the voice from original portrayer Margie Hines.
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