Hays, analyzed every script, story line, and film that was produced. The Motion Picture Produces and Distributors of America (MPPDA), known as the Hays Office after it’s president William H. Hollywood adopted a movie code in their quest to keep Hollywood films free of age restrictions and open to world wide markets. By 1932 she had acquired her name and in the episode Any Rags she became human.īetty Boop’s cartoons as they evolved were considered risque by many.ĭuring the 1930’s the film industry was going through a censorship period that would last well into the 1960’s. She was originally drawn by Grimm Natwick to portraying a little dog character with feminine legs and spit curls. The evolution of Betty Boop’s adorable but sexy personality put her in the middle of the 1930’s censorship controversy.īetty Boop started out as the girlfriend of the character Bimbo in Dizzie Dish’s. Betty Boop became one of the audience’s favorite characters. When sound was introduced Fleischer studio created the Talkertoon series. These included Popeye, Superman and Betty Boop. On the other side of her, ignored, march a glaring Koko and Bimbo.During the 1930’s the Fleischer Studios had a collection of characters that were considered competition for Disney. The cartoon ends with Betty wearing an enormous spotted fur, marching in a parade with all the animals, next to a fondly grinning naked animal. But Betty is dismayed by all the freezing, naked animals who have followed Koko and Bimbo to her place, wanting their furs back. Betty then starts handing the furs back to the animals at random, so that they don't end up with the fur they started with. They pile their booty on a rock in front of Betty's cabin, and call her out to show her the furs. An unspotted cat tries to follow some leopards into a club, and is kept out by a door keeper he isn't qualified to enter the "Leopard Colony." Finally, animals attack Bimbo and Koko, and each has a big fight from which he emerges victorious, with a pile of furs over his shoulder. Most of the gags here are pretty standard hunting gags, but one that stands out is a joke about leopards. One gets the impression that the artist just didn't know what a deer is supposed to look like, but the result is funny. The deer is really bizarre-looking, with a blobby nose and undershot jaw, and a strange furry collar. Notable about this sequence is the crude rendering of the animals. Then Koko and Bimbo rush into Betty's cabin, and in one of the more jarring scenes in a cartoon, they stroke her leg while Koko exclaims, "Okay, baby, we'll fix you up!" Next ensues a long sequence of hunting and animal gags. Bimbo's heart does not appreciate the attention. When Bimbo and Koko hear Betty, their hearts sail up out of their bodies. Then they overhear the rest of Betty's song. Bimbo and Koko come up and shoot at the moose, who runs off. (In most cartoons, she is a city girl.) We find Betty Boop inside, playing a fine, rousing version of the tune " Then I'll Be Happy". The cartoon begins with a look at Betty Boop's little cabin in the woods. Boop-Oop-a-Doop!īetty Boop's twenty-second cartoon appearance is in this Talkartoon produced in 1932. Some of the information is Boop-Oop-a-Dooping full of SPOILERS.
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