Musical Mountaineers

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Musical Mountaineers
Betty Boop 1933 v 1939.jpg
Comparison of Betty Boop in the pre-Hays Code era (from "Betty Boop's Ker-Choo" in 1933) to Betty Boop after the Code (from "Musical Mountaineers" in 1939)
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Starring Margie Hines [1]
Pinto Colvig [2]
Jack Mercer
Animation by Thomas Johnson
Harold Walker
Color process Black-and-white
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • May 12, 1939 (1939-05-12)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Musical Mountaineers is a 1939 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. [3]

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Synopsis

Betty Boop's automobile runs out of gasoline while driving through hillbilly country. When she goes up to a nearby shack to ask for help, landowner Zonk Peters and his family are suspicious of the stranger, mistaking her for an attacking Hatfield, but Betty wins them with her dancing. Soon, the entire Peters clan are making music and dancing. Betty's new friends help her on her way by filling her gas tank with a jug of "corn dripp'ns".

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References

  1. Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 346. ISBN   979-8-88771-010-5.
  2. "Gus Wicke, an Appreciation |".
  3. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.