Betty Boop's Ker-Choo

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Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Seymour Kneitel (animation)
Produced by Max Fleischer
Starring Billy Murray (Bimbo) [1]
Ann Rothschild
(Betty Boop)
Bonnie Poe (Betty Boop)
Margie Hines
(additional voices)
Music by Johnny Green
Sammy Timberg
Jack King
Animation bySeymour Kneitel
Bernard Wolf
Color process Black and white
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Publix Corporation
Release date
  • December 29, 1932 (1932-12-29)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Betty Boop's Ker-Choo is a 1932 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Koko the Clown and Bimbo. [2]

Contents

Plot

Bimbo and Koko are among the contestants in a big auto race, where all the talking animals in Fleischer-land are in attendance (the "humanized" cars await in stalls like horses, and the judge's panel consists of three elderly blind men). The favorite in the race is Betty Boop, but she's late again, and her Yiddish-accented car has no idea where she is. When Betty finally shows up, she explains in song that her tardiness is due to a "cold in my 'nose'".

Once the race begins, it's a real thriller-spiller, with even the spectators getting into the act—and catching Betty's cold in the process ("Ah, ah, CHOO!)" [3] Eventually, Betty wins the race.

Notes and comments

Betty sings the song "I've Got a Cold in My Nose", written by Scott Bradley with lyrics by Joseph Hanna. [4]

This short was featured in a Cartoon Network video, synced to Soul Coughing's song "Rolling". [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1930". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
  2. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Betty Boop's Ker-Choo". MovieFone. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Betty Boop's Ker-Choo". IMDb. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ "BangShift Tune-Up: "Rolling" by Soul Coughing (1998)". August 22, 2016.


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