Be Up to Date

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Be Up to Date
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer (producer)
S. Roy Luby (associate producer)
Starring Mae Questel [1]
Animation by Thomas Johnson
Harold Walker
Color process Black-and-white
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • February 25, 1938 (1938-02-25)
Running time
7 mins
LanguageEnglish

Be Up to Date is a 1938 Betty Boop animated short film. [2]

Contents

Plot

Betty Boop's Traveling Department Store comes to Hillbillyville; the mountain folks find old uses for the new gadgets, such as using a waffle iron for ironing hair, or playing music, in which Betty joins in on the fun.

Notes

This is the last theatrical short subject cartoon in which Mae Questel voiced Betty. After this cartoon, other people would provide Betty's voice.

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References

  1. Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 344. ISBN   979-8-88771-010-5.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.