"Paging Doctor Moreau!"īimbo's Initiation Look carefully at the shot where Bimbo is pushed down a manhole - the fleeting character responsible appears to be none other than Mickey Mouse! Captured by a hooded mob of maniacs that keep asking him if he wants to join, Bimbo must navigate a surreal subterranean maze.
Animated by Grim Natwick and Ted Sears this is the first collection cartoon we've seen with Betty in her first incarnation, with those strange hound-dog ears (see image just below). Betty sings in a restaurant, where an impatient customer can't wait for the roast duck he ordered. Here's a rundown of the twelve titles, with a brief note as to contents:ĭizzy Dishes. By the next cartoon this has been all cleared up, and we're safely in the Fleischer world of bizarre animal creatures bopping to the beat of the music, Toon-town style. Characters seem to change shape as they move, and even Betty (especially her insect-like mouth) is very crudely animated. Adding to the overall impression of an LSD attack in the animation studio, some of the work looks as if drawing talent were not required. The gags are just as crazy, if not crazier than in the later cartoons. Instead of earrings, Betty has long floppy ears. The new Betty Boop The Essential Collection Vol 2 backs up to near the beginning with 1930's Dizzy Dishes, a cartoon in which she's designed as a half-woman, half-dog character. But the first selection had begun in 1932, raising the question of whether earlier cartoons would be excluded. When we last left the naughty adventures of Betty Boop, with August's Betty Boop The Essential Collection Vol 1, we knew that Olive Films was planning four collections. Made of pen and ink! She can win you with a wink! Street Date Septem/ available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Betty Boop The Essential Collection Vol 2ġ930 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy (although the earliest cartoons are narrower) / 83 min.
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