![]() This blogger reviews almost every new animated feature. cartoons.Ĭharles Kenny discusses animation industry news.Īri muses over and reviews classic cinema. Samantha Cooper reviews new animation features and series, including a lot of anime.ĭedicated to Tex Avery’s Warner Bros. Historian David Gerstein’s blog on classic cartoons and comics. Arguably the best blog on silent cinema.Ī gorgeous blog devoted to pencil tests old and new. Kept until 2018.īlog by the late Michael Sporn on classic animation, comics and illustrationįritzi celebrates silent film. cartoonsĪ great blog on classic and studio animation. Numerous stills from numerous Warner Bros. Kept until 2019.Ī goldmine of animation sketches and pencil tests Young Steven Hartley analyses every Warner Bros. Katie Carter reviews feature films old and new Short and to the point reviews of classic films (lately mostly pre-code talkies) by an anonymous retired Foreign Service Officer from California Paul Astell brings us thorough reviews of animated features. Top ex-Disney animator Andreas Deja’s own blog.Įsteemed Disney historian Didier Ghez on the latest books on Disney history. ![]() Jessica Pickens reviews classic Hollywood films, especially musicals. Michael reviews films of 100 years old and older, roughly in chronological order.Ī similar blog featuring many stills and comic strips. ![]() THE site on classic animation research, hosted by cartoon historian Jerry Beck.įrank Beef analyzes classic cartoons. Topical blog on animation film, led by animation historian Amid Amidi.Īmid Amidi’s blog on modern design cartoon art from the forties, fifties and sixties. Kept until 2016.Īnimation historian Jerry Beck’s animation film news blog. Kept until 2011.Ī blog dedicated to background paintings from animation films. ‘Betty Boop’s Birthday Party’ is available on the French DVD Box Set ‘Betty Boop Coffret Collector’Ī great blog on Disney’s top animators, old and new. To the next Betty Boop cartoon: Betty Boop’s May Party To the previous Betty Boop cartoon: Snow-White Watch ‘Betty Boop’s Birthday Party’ yourself and tell me what you think: The flapper girl has her finest moment during the opening scenes, and the best gag may the unpacking of the piano. ‘Betty Boop’s Birthday Party’ is an enjoyable cartoon, if not among Betty’s best. While the party gets totally out of hand, Betty sails off with a statue of George Washington (don’t try to understand this). This part includes a remarkable scene of Bimbo changing himself into a machine gun, shooting peas. All goes well, until two visitors start arguing about a fish, and the complete party ends in a fight. In the third scene we watch Betty and her visitors eating at a long table in the garden. Koko gives her a dachshund, Bimbo gives her three fish in a bowl, and Fleischer’s unnamed stock baby gives her a piano. It appears that her friends have organized a surprise party for her. She finds a package at her doorstep, which appears to be a birthday cake. Viewers unable to accept that the past was a different world may not wish t go any further.Betty’s working alone at home, singing the song ‘Hummin’ to Myself’, but then her bell rings. Note that some of the following cartoons display decidedly 1930s attitudes. More recent revivals have unfortunately been equally tame and juvenile, rather losing the spirit, the sexiness and the subversiveness of the early character. ![]() Unfortunately, after a couple of years of carefree fun Betty was forcibly domesticated by the Hayes Code in 1934, and her original series sputtered to a sanitised halt in 1939. Her tight dresses, high heels, garter and cleavage presented Betty as a very sexual character – but never a sex object, despite what some modern critics like to say. The classic Betty Boop cartoons show her as a thoroughly modern girl, still innocent but subject to the leering attentions of men – sometimes in decidedly sinister fashion. It wasn’t until 1932 that she was humanised in the form we all recognise today, based on the actress Helen Kane (who unsuccessfully sued in 1932). She is now a bona fide pop culture icon, recreated and reinvented by burlesque performers, rockabilly girls and other fans of retro sexual rebellion.Ī jazz baby, a flapper and a sexually emancipated woman, Betty was a decidedly adult character – for adult audiences -in the pre-code days… though she actually started life as an anthropomorphic French poodle. Just look at how much Betty Boop merchandise there is available now – certainly outstripping the likes of Tom and Jerry or even Mickey Mouse (at least in terms of visibility). Born on August 9th 1930 (in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes), Betty Boop remains one of the great animated characters of all time.
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