Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the film series Talkartoon and Betty Boop, produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and bulk merchandising.
A caricature of the Jazz Age flapper Betty Boop is portrayed in a 1934 court case as: "combin [in] a sophisticated childish appearance - a large round baby face with large eyes and a button-like nose, framed in a rather delicate hairstyle- heart, with a very small body that may be its main characteristic is the most confident breasts. "Despite having softened in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more polite, he became one of the most famous and popular cartoon characters in the world.
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Origins
Betty Boop made his first appearance on August 9, 1930, in the Dizzy Dizzy cartoons, the seventh installment of Fleischer's Talkartoon series . Although Clara Bow is often given as a model for Boop, she actually began as a caricature of singer Helen Kane, who in turn gained fame by imitating the style of black singer Baby Esther Jones.
The character was originally created as an anthropomorphic French poodle. Betty Boop appears as a supporting character in ten cartoons as a flapper girl with more heart than brain. In an individual cartoon, he is called "Nancy Lee" or "Nan McGrew" - originally from the 1930 Helen Kane film Dangerous Nan McGrew - usually serving as the girlfriend for studio star, Bimbo.
Within a year, Betty made the transition from incidental human-dog into a fully human human character. While much credit has been given to Grim Natwick for his creation, his change to be a cute cartoon girl is due to the work of Berny Wolf, Otto Feuer, Seymour Kneitel, "Doc" Crandall, Willard Bowsky, and James "Shamus" Culhane. With the release of Any Rags Betty Boop is forever set as a human character. Her floppy poodle ear became an earring, and her black poodle nose became a nose like a girl's button.
Betty's voice was first performed by Margie Hines, and then performed by different voice actresses, including Kate Wright, Bonnie Poe, Ann Rothschild (also known as Little Ann Little), and most famously, Mae Questel. Questel, who started voicing Betty Boop in the Bimbo Bimbo Scandal (1931), and resumed his role until 1938, returning 50 years later at Disney Who is Rogamed Rabbit . Today, Betty is voiced by Tress MacNeille, Sandy Fox and Cindy Robinson in advertisements.
Although it has been assumed that Betty's first name was established in 1931 Cartoon Songs cartoon, Betty Co-ed , this "Betty" is a completely different character. Although the song may have caused Betty's final baptism, any references to Betty Co-ed as Betty Boop vehicles are incorrect although Betty Boop's official website portrays the titular character as Betty Boop's "prototype". There are at least 12 Film Songs featuring Betty Boop or similar characters. Betty appeared in the first "Color Classic" cartoon of Poor Cinderella, the only theatrical performance in 1934. In the film, she was portrayed with red hair as opposed to her typical black hair. Betty also made a cameo appearance on feature film
Betty Boop was the star of Talkartoons in 1932 and was given his own series that same year, starting with Stopping Perform . Since then, he has been named the "Animated Screen Queen". The series was popular throughout the 1930s, which lasted until 1939.
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As sex symbol
Betty Boop is considered one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animation screen; he is a symbol of the Depression era, and a reminder of the more free days of the floppy Jazz Age. Its popularity was largely taken from adult audiences, and the cartoons, though apparently real, contained many sexual and psychological elements, especially in 1932 "Talkartoon" Minnie the Moocher , featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra.
Minnie the Moocher defines Betty's character as a modern-day teenager, contrary to his parents' old ways. In a cartoon, after a row with a tight parent, Betty escapes from home, accompanied by his girlfriend Bimbo, just lost in a haunted cave. A walrus ghost (rotoscoped from Calloway's live-action footage) sings the famous song Calloway "Minnie the Moocher", accompanied by several ghosts and other skeletons. This haunting appearance sends the frightened Betty and Bimbo back to the safe house. "Minnie the Moocher" served as a promotion for the next stage of Calloway performance and also founded Betty Boop as a cartoon star. Eight Talkartoons followed all the stars starring Betty, leading him into his own series starting in 1932. With the release of Stopping the Show (August 1932), Talkartoons > replaced by the Betty Boop series, which continues for the next seven years.
Betty Boop is unique among female cartoon characters because she represents a sexual woman. Other female cartoon characters of the same period, such as Minnie Mouse, display their underwear or underwear regularly, in a childish or funny character style, not a fully defined female form. Many other female cartoons are just clones of their male counterparts, with costume changes, eyelash additions, and women's voices. Betty Boop was wearing a short dress, high heels, a garter, and her breasts were highlighted with a low, contoured corset showing the cleavage. In his cartoons, male characters often try to peek when he changes or just about his business. At Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle, she does hula wearing anything but lei, strategically placed to cover her breasts, and a grass skirt. This was repeated in his first cameo appearance at Popeye the Sailor (1933). However, there are certain girlish qualities in that character. She was drawn with a head more like a baby than an adult comparable to her body. This suggests a combination of the ferocity and maturity that many people see in the flapper type, represented by Betty.
While the character remains pure and like the woman on the screen, a compromise of her kindness is a challenge. The 1931 Christmas cards of the studio show Betty in bed with Santa, winking at the observer. Also in 1931, Talkartoons The Bum Bandit and Dizzy Red Riding Hood were given "impure" terms. Officially, Betty is only 16 years old, according to a 1932 interview with Fleischer (though on The Bum Bandit , she is described as a married woman with many children and with an adult female voice, rather than a standard "boop -boop-a-doop ").
Her virgin compromise effort is reflected in Chess-Nuts (1932) and most importantly in Boop-Oop-a-Doop (1932). At Chess-Nuts , Black King walks into the house where Betty is and ties it up. When he refused, he pulled her out of the rope, dragged her into the bedroom and said, "I'll have you". The bed, however, escaped and Betty asked for help through the window. Bimbo came to rescue her, and she was saved before something happened. In Boop-Oop-a-Doop , Betty is a high performer at the circus. The ring leader lusted for Betty as she looked at it from below, singing "Do Something", a song previously performed by Helen Kane. When Betty returns to his tent, the circus leader follows him inside and sensually massages his legs, surrounds him, and threatens his work if he does not give up. Betty begged the circus leader to stop her step, as she sang "Do not Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop". Koko the clown was practicing juggling it outside the tent and overhearing the struggle inside. He jumps to save Betty, wrestling with the circus leader, who puts him in a cannon and shoots him. Koko, who remains hiding inside the cannon, knocks the ringmaster out cold with a hammer, mimicking the leader's laughter. Koko then asks about Betty's welfare, which she answers in the song, "No, she can not take my boop-oop-a-doop". According to Jill Harness from Mental Floss , Boop's portrayal of the fight against sexual harassment on the animated screen makes many people see it as a feminist icon.
Helen Kane's Demands
In May 1932, Helen Kane filed a $ 250,000 infringement suit against Max Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corporation for "deliberate caricatures" resulting in "unfair competition", exploiting her personality and image. While Kane had risen to prominence in the late 1920s as "The Boop-Oop-A-Doop Girl", stage star, recording, and film for Paramount, his career approached the end of 1931. Paramount promoted the development of Betty Boop following Kane's decline. The case was brought in New York in 1934. Although Kane's claim seems to apply on the surface, it proved that her appearance was not unique. Both Kane and Betty Boop characters have a resemblance to Paramount's main star, Clara Bow. On April 19, Fleischer testified that pure Betty Boop is a product of his imagination and detailed by his staff members.
The most significant evidence of Kane's case is his claim to the uniqueness of his singing style. The testimony revealed that Kane had witnessed an African American player, Baby Esther - whose name was given in the trial as Esther Jones, perhaps a pseudonym for Gertrude Saunders, using the same vocal style in an action at the Cotton Club club club in Harlem, several years earlier , even though he was considered dead during the trial. The evidence is also presented by establishing that even the "boop-oop-a-doo" signature line was created by Jones as an improvised jazz vocal in the style of dispersion he knew. An early sound test film was also found which featured Baby Esther performing in this style, refuting Kane's claim. New York Supreme Court Judge Edward J. McGoldrick decided, "The plaintiff has failed to defend one cause of action with sufficient evidence of proof power". The verdict concluded that the singing "baby" technique did not come from Kane.
Under Production Code
Betty Boop's best performances are considered in his first three years for the character of "Baby Jazz" and innocent sexuality, aimed at adults. However, the content of the film is influenced by the National Legal of Decency and the 1934 Production Code. Production Code 1934 establishes guidelines on the Moving Image Industry and places certain restrictions on content films that may refer to sexual innuendo. This greatly affects the Betty Boop cartoon.
No longer a carefree flapper from the date the code came into effect on July 1, 1934, Betty became an elderly housewife or a career girl dressed in a fuller dress or skirt. In addition, over time, curls in his hair gradually decreased. She also eventually stopped wearing her gold bracelet and earrings, and she became more mature and wiser in personality, compared to previous years. From the beginning, Joseph Breen, the head of the new film censorship, has many complaints. Breen's Office ordered the removal of a suggestive suggestion that had started the cartoon because Betty Boop's twitches and shaking hips were considered "suggestive of immorality". For some entries, Betty was given a new human boyfriend named Freddie, who was introduced in She Wronged Him Right (1934). Next, Betty works with a puppy named Pudgy, starting with Betty Boop's Little Pal (1934). The following year saw the addition of the eccentric inventor Grampy, who debuted at Betty Boop and Grampy (1935).
While these cartoons are benign compared to their previous appearances, self-conscious self-interest is aimed at younger audiences, contributing to the series decline. Much of the decline was due to the diminution of Betty's role in the cartoons that support her fellow stars. This is a similar problem experienced during the same period with Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, which has been hampered by the popularity of Donald Duck's co-stars Goofy and Pluto, not to mention Fleischer's greatest success, Popeye.
Since he is largely a new musical character, the animators are trying to make Betty cartoons interesting by pairing them with popular comic characters like Henry, The Little King and Little Jimmy, hoping to create an additional spin-off series with his partner with Popeye. in 1933. However, none of these films produced a new series. When the flapper/jazz era represented by Betty has been replaced by big bands of the swing era, Fleischer Studios made an effort to develop a surrogate character in this style in 1938 Betty Boop Betty Boop and Sally Swing , but that did not work.
The last Betty Boop cartoon was released in 1939, and several attempts were made to bring Betty into the age of the swing. In his last appearance, Rhythm on the Reservation (1939). Betty pushed open conversions, labeled "Betty Boop's Swing Band", via a Native American reservation, where she introduced people to swing music and created "Swinging Sioux Band". The cartoon series Betty Boop officially ends with Yip Yip Yippy (1939). While "Yip Yip Yippy" appeared at the end of the Betty Boop series, it was just a one-shot about the cowboy "mailing order" drug store "wannabe" without Betty. "Yip Yip Yipee" is written primarily to fill the release schedule and fulfill the contract.
TV and DVD
In 1955, 110 of Betty's cartoon appearances were sold to the U.M. television syndicate. & amp; M. TV Corporation, acquired by National Telefilm Associates (NTA) in 1956. NTA was reorganized in 1985 as Republic Pictures, which folded in 2012, and became Melange Pictures, a subsidiary of Viacom, Paramount's parent company. Paramount, Boop's original home studio (via Melange/Viacom), now acting as a theater distributor for the originally released Boop cartoon. Television rights are now handled on behalf of Paramount by Trifecta Entertainment & amp; The media, which in turn are inherited from CBS Television Distribution, the successors of various related companies, including Worldvision Enterprises, Republic Pictures Television, and NTA.
Betty Boop appeared on two television specials, The Romance of Betty Boop in 1985, produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez, the same creative team behind Peanuts specials; and 1989's Mystery Films Betty Boop and these two specials are available on DVD as part of the Mega Mega Advantage Package. He has made a cameo appearance in television commercials and feature film 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit . While the rise of television is conceived, nothing materializes from the plan.
While animated cartoons of Betty Boop have enjoyed a renewed popularity over the last 30 years, official home video releases have been limited to VHS and LaserDisc collector sets in the 1990s. There is no such release for Betty Boop cartoons on DVD and Blu-ray, until 2013 when Olive Films finally released non-public domain cartoons, though they were returned from original television negegatives that brought about changing change and closing credits. Volume 1 was released on August 20, 2013, and Volume 2 on September 24, 2013.
On February 11, 2016 Deadline announced that a new 26-episode television series focusing on Betty Boop is in production, in partnership with Normaal Animation, Fleischer Studios and King Features and is set to air in 2018. The show will be directed to tween viewers and teenagers. The premise of the show, according to the article, will "recount the daily struggles, joys and triumphs of the young Betty Boop, who has every intention of being onstage and becoming a superstar."
Comics
Betty Boop's strip comic strip Bud Counihan (assisted by Fleischer Hal Seeger's staff) was distributed by King Features Syndicate from 1934 to 1937. From 1984 to 1988, the resurrection strip with Felix the Cat, Betty Boop and Felix , produced by the sons of Mort Walker, Brian, Neal, Greg, and Morgan. In 1990, First Comics published Betty Boop's Big Break, a 52-page original graphic novel by Joshua Quagmire, Milton Knight, and Leslie Cabarga. In 2016, Dynamite Entertainment published a new comic of Betty Boop with 20 pages in an alternative anime American graphic novel style.
Video game
in 2007, Betty Boop's Double Shift for the Nintendo DS
Contemporary revival
Betty Boop films found a new audience when Paramount sold it for syndication in 1955. U & amp; M. and National Telefilm Associates are required to remove the original Paramount logo from opening and closing as well as reference to Paramount in the copyright line on the main title. However, the motif of the mountain remains in some printed television, usually with the letter U. & amp; M. copyright line, while the latest version has been circulated with reference Paramount-Publix in cartoons from 1931.
The original Betty Boop cartoon was made in black and white. When new color cartoons made specifically for television began appearing in the 1960s with the spread of color TV sets, the original black-and-white cartoons had been retired. Boop's film career has been revived with the release of
It was the rise of home videos that created an appreciation for the movies in their original version, and Betty was rediscovered in Beta and VHS versions. The growing cable industry witnessed the making of American Classic Movies, which showcased the original "Betty Boop" black and white cartoon choice of the 1990s, which produced eight VHS volumes and the LV set, "Betty Boop, The Definitive Collection". Some of the non-public, copyrighted domains of copyrighted Boop cartoons by successors of the Republic of Melange Pictures (the parent company of Viacom that handles Republican theater libraries) have been released by Olive Films under the Paramount license, while Internet Archive is currently host 22 Betty Boop cartoon which is a public domain.
Marketers found Betty Boop in the 1980s, and Betty Boop's merchandise has gone far beyond his exposure in movies, with many not realizing themselves as cinematic creations. Most merchandise today features characters in their popular and sexier forms, and has become popular all over the world once again. The 1980s rapper Betty Boo (whose sound, image and name is influenced by cartoon characters) became popular in the UK mainly due to the rise of "Betty Boop".
There is a short refund to the theater screen. In 1988, Betty appeared after a 50-year hiatus with a cameo in the Academy Award-winning film Framed Roger Rabbit . In 1993, producer Steven Paul Leiva began producing new feature film Betty Boop for The Zanuck Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The manuscript by Rees tells of the rise of Betty in Hollywood in the Golden Age of Hollywood. It became music with music and lyrics by jazzman Bennie Wallace. Wallace has completed several songs and seventy-five percent of the film has become a storyboard when, two weeks before the sound recording started with Bernadette Peters as Betty, MGM's head, Alan Ladd, Jr., was replaced by Frank Mancuso, and the project was abandoned.
Current lawsuits and ownership
The ownership of the Boop cartoons has changed hands for decades due to a series of corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestments (primarily involving Republic Pictures and the separation of its parent company Viacom 2006 into two separate companies). Until now, Olive Films (under license from Paramount) holds home video rights and Trifecta retains the rights of television.
The rights to "Betty Boop" characters are not sold with cartoons by Paramount, and it was transferred to Harvey Films, inc. in 1958, according to the 2011 US Court ruling, the trademark (but not legally) trademark of Betty Boop is owned by Fleischer Studios, with merchandising rights to the name licensed to King Features Syndicate.
In a 2011 ruling, the US court was unable to reach a majority decision on copyright ownership, only agreeing that Paramount sold the copyright to Harvey Films Inc. in 1958.
Recent events
The Betty Boop series continues to be the favorite of many critics, and the 1933 Snow White Betty Boop cartoon (not to be confused with Disney Film Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)) were selected for preservation by the US Congress Library at the National Film Registry in 1994. Betty Boop's popularity continues to date, with references appearing on the Doonesbury comic strip , in which the character of BD's wife/wife Bust named "Boopsie" and animated TV reality spoof Pulled Together , where Betty is the inspiration for Toot Braunstein. A Betty Boop music is in development for Broadway, with music by David Foster.
Betty parodied on Animaniacs in Girl with the Googily Goop, with a Boop character called "Googi Goop". The episode, made in black and white, is also a parody of Little Red Riding Hood, with the girl having to go to her grandmother's house and eventually be kidnapped. The sound of Googi is provided by a one-time voice actress Betty Boop Desirà ©  © e Goyette.
In 2010, Betty Boop became the official fantasy cheerleader for the newly-established United Football League. She will also be featured in merchandise targeted towards female league demographics.
According to Playbill.com, a music based on Betty Boop is "in the works", with music by David Foster and a book by Oscar Williams and Sally Robinson. No date, theater or players are registered.
In June 2012, Betty Boop was reportedly chosen along with top model Daria Werbowy to star in TV commercials for the latest Lancome eyelash, HypnÃÆ'Â'se Star Mascara. This ad was released on July 2, 2012, and directed by Joann Sfar.
In March 2017, Betty appeared alongside Zac Posen fashion designer in a short animation promotion produced by King Features Syndicate, Fleischer Studios (a subsidiary) and Pantone.
Movieography
Betty Boop series
Note: see Talkartoons filmography for previous Betty Boop appearances, and Screen Songs filmography for additional Betty Boop performances.
- 1 Betty Boop: Essential Collection, Volume 4 - Blu-ray and DVD, released September 30, 2014
- 2 Betty Boop: Essential Collection, Volume 2 - Blu-ray and DVD, released September 24, 2013
- 3 Betty Boop: Essential Collection, Volume 1 - Blu-ray and DVD, released August 20, 2013
- 4 Betty Boop: Essential Collection, Volume 3 - Blu-ray and DVD, released April 29, 2014
- 5 Popeye The Sailor, Volume 1 (1933-1938) - DVD, released July 31, 2007
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Feature movie planned
In 1993, there was a plan for the animated feature film Betty Boop but the plan was later canceled. The musical storyboard scene of the proposed movie can be viewed online. The finished rolls consist of Betty and her distant father featuring a jazz song called "Where are you?" Jimmy Rowles and Sue Raney provide vocals for Betty and Benny Boop. On August 14, 2014, it was announced that Simon Cowell's Syco and Animal Logic were developing and producing long films based on the characters.
Legacy
- In 2002, Betty was voted in TV Guide ' 50 of the greatest cartoon characters of all time, ranking # 17.
- In 2004, Betty Boop was voted among the "100 Greatest Cartoons" in a poll conducted by British channel Channel 4, ranking at # 96.
- In March 2009, the British newspaper voted Betty Boop the sexiest cartoon character of all time, with Jessica Rabbit in first place and Cadbury's Caramel Bunny in third.
- In August 2010, the first Betty Boop Festival was held in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, and the second Festival was held in July 2011.
- One of the main characters of the 2012 film American Mary is a woman who has undergone extensive plastic surgery to resemble Betty Boop.
References
Explanation notes
Quotes
Bibliography
- Pointer, Ray (2017) Art and Discovery Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer North Carolina: McFarland Books. ISBN: 978-1-4766-6367-8
- Solomon, Charles (1994). The History of Animation: The Magic Image . Company Book Outlet.
- Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection , Volume 1-8 (VHS)
External links
- Official website
- Betty Boop Channel on YouTube
- List of Betty Boop public domain cartoons online
- Betty Boop in Big Cartoon DataBase
- Betty Boop in Toonopedia Don Markstein. Archived from the original on February 22, 2018.
- Betty Goes A-Posen (short promotion for Zac Posen dress)
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