Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions

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Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Starring Mae Questel (Betty Boop)
Billy Murray (Bimbo)
Music by Samuel Lerner
Sammy Timberg
Animation by Ugo D'Orsi
Willard Bowsky
Bernard Wolf
Color process Black-and-white
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Publix Corporation
Release date
  • January 27, 1933 (1933-01-27)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film, featuring Betty Boop. [1]

Contents

This cartoon was first theatrically released with the Mae West film She Done Him Wrong .

Plot

At the inventor's show, Betty, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown demonstrate a variety of gadgets, including:

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.

In other media

A Brief Story

Assisted by ticket-taker Bimbo the Dog and product-demonstrator Koko the Clown, Betty Boop stages a "Big Invention Show". 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. Betty herself demonstrates a most unusual voice recorder with a performance of "Keep a Little Song Handy". The show's number-one attraction, a very powerful self-threading sewing machine, knits up the proceedings quite nicely. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi A message from "CCTheMovieman" rated it 5 stars. "This was my first look in over 40 years at a Betty Boop cartoon.....and I was impressed. It was pretty funny and very "inventive", pun intended. This really wasn't her style, either, as I have since discovered (singing and dancing was her forte.)" [2]

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References

  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. "Answers - the Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions".