Betty Boop and Grampy | |
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Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
Produced by | Max Fleischer |
Starring | Mae Questel Everett Clark [1] [2] Jack Mercer [1] |
Animation by | David Tendlar Charles Hastings |
Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Betty Boop and Grampy is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. [3] The short features Grampy in his first appearance. [4]
Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm On My Way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop—all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party.
Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices are of the Rube Goldberg variety. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl, and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges.
Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.
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