Making Stars

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Making Stars
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Starring Mae Questel
Animation by Edward Nolan
Herman Cohen
Myron Waldman
Hicks Lokey
Lillian Friedman
Frank Endres
Ted Vosk
Sam Stimson (uncredited)
Color process Black-and-white
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • October 18, 1935 (1935-10-18)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Making Stars is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop. [1] The short contains one of the earliest clear examples of the oriental riff that would become popular as a leitmotif for Asian culture following the release of the 1974 song Kung Fu Fighting .

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Synopsis

Betty is the MC of "Making Stars", a stage revue introducing the "stars of tomorrow": a series of performing babies. Acts include the Colorful 3 (a trio of stereotyped Black babies singing "Hi De Ho"), an Asian baby marksman, and a bouncing Russian baby named "Little Miss Trotsky."

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  1. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.


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