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She originally appeared in the and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by and released. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.A caricature of a, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as: 'combining in appearance the childish with the sophisticated—a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable'. Although she was toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the to appear more demure, Betty Boop became one of the best-known and popular cartoon characters in the world.
Betty Boop and Bimbo in (1932)Betty Boop made her first appearance in the cartoon, released on August 9, 1930, the seventh installment in Fleischer's series. Although is often given credit as being the inspiration for Boop, some say she actually began as a caricature of singer, who performed in a style shared by many performers of the day.Inspired by a popular performing style, but not by any one specific person, the character was originally created as an. Betty Boop appeared as a supporting character in ten cartoons as a girl with more heart than brains. In individual cartoons, she was called 'Nancy Lee' or 'Nan McGrew'—derived from the film (1930)—usually serving as a girlfriend to studio star,.Within a year, Betty made the transition from an incidental human-canine breed to a completely human female character. While much credit has been given to Grim Natwick for helping to transform Max Fleischer's creation, her transition into the cute cartoon girl was also in part due to the work of Berny Wolf, Otto Feuer, Seymour Kneitel, 'Doc' Crandall, Willard Bowsky, and James 'Shamus' Culhane. By the release of Betty Boop was forever established as a human character. Her floppy poodle ears became hoop, and her black poodle nose became a girl's button-like nose.Betty was first voiced.
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Later, several different performed the role, including, Ann Rothschild (also known as ), and especially. Questel, who began voicing Betty Boop in (1931), and continued with the role until 1938, returning 50 years later in (1988). Today, Betty is voiced by in commercials.Although it has been assumed that Betty's first name was established in the cartoon (1931), Betty Co-ed, this 'Betty' is an entirely different character. Even though the song may have led to Betty's eventual christening, any reference to Betty Co-ed as a Betty Boop vehicle is incorrect although the official Betty Boop website describes the titular character as a 'prototype' of Betty. There are at least 12 Screen Songs cartoons that featured Betty Boop or a similar character. Betty appeared in the first 'Color Classic' cartoon Poor Cinderella, her only theatrical color appearance in 1934. In the film, she was depicted with red hair as opposed to her typical black hair.Betty Boop was the star of the Talkartoons by 1932 and was given her own series that same year, beginning with.
From that point on, she was crowned 'The Queen of the Animated Screen'. The series was popular throughout the 1930s, lasting until 1939.Contemporary resurgence The Betty Boop films were revived after Paramount sold them for in 1955. And were required to remove the original Paramount logo from the opening and closing as well as any references to Paramount in the copyright line on the main titles.
However, the mountain motif remains on some television prints, usually with a U.M. Copyright line, while recent versions have circulated with the Paramount-Publix reference in cartoons from 1931.The original Betty Boop cartoons were made in black-and-white. As new color cartoons made specifically for television began to appear in the 1960s, the original black-and-white cartoons were retired.
Boop's film career saw a revival with the release of The Betty Boop Scandals of 1974, becoming a part of the post-1960s. NTA attempted to capitalize on this with a new syndication package, but because there was no market for cartoons in black and white, they sent them to South Korea, where the cartoons were hand-traced frame-by-frame in color, resulting in the degradation of the animation quality and timing. Unable to sell these to television largely because of the sloppy colorization, they assembled a number of the color cartoons in a compilation feature titled, to connect with the 1976 election, but it did not receive a theatrical release.The release of the films on video cassette for home viewing created a new market for the films in their original form. The cable television channel showcased a selection of the original black and white Betty Boop cartoons in the 1990s, which led to an eight-volume VHS and LV set, Betty Boop, the Definitive Collection. Some of the non-public domain Boop cartoons copyrighted by Republic successor Melange Pictures (Viacom's holding company that handles the Republic theatrical library) have been released by Olive Films under Paramount's license, while the currently hosts 22 Betty Boop cartoons that are now.Planned feature appearances In 1993, there were plans for an animated feature film of Betty Boop but the plans were later canceled.
The musical storyboard scene of the proposed film can be seen online. The finished reel consists of Betty and her estranged father performing a jazz number together called 'Where are you?' And provide the vocals for Betty and Benny Boop. On August 14, 2014, it was announced that 's and are developing and producing the feature-length film based on the character.In 1993, producers Steven Paul Leiva began production on a new Betty Boop feature film for The Zanuck Company.
The script by Rees detailed Betty's rise in Hollywood in the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was to be a musical with music and lyrics by jazz musician. Wallace had completed several songs and seventy-five percent of the film had been storyboarded when, two weeks before voice recording was to begin with as Betty, the head of MGM, was replaced by, and the project was abandoned.According to, a musical based on Betty Boop is 'in the works', with music by David Foster and book by Oscar Williams and Sally Robinson. No dates, theatre or cast are listed. Portrayal Sex symbol. 'The cartoon of Betty Boop illustrates some human features which are sometimes labeled as, such as a large head, short arms and legs relative to total height, and clumsy, child–like movements.'
—Betty Boop is regarded as one of the first and best known on the animated screen; she is a symbol of the, and a reminder of the more carefree days of. Her popularity was drawn largely from adult audiences, and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many sexual and psychological elements, particularly in the 1932 'Talkartoon' (1932), featuring and his orchestra.Minnie the Moocher defined Betty's character as a teenager of a modern era, at odds with the old-world ways of her parents. In the cartoon, after a disagreement with her strict parents, Betty runs away from home, accompanied by her boyfriend Bimbo, only to get lost in a haunted cave. A ghostly ( from live-action footage of Calloway) sings Calloway's song 'Minnie the Moocher', accompanied by several other ghosts and skeletons.
This haunting performance sends the frightened Betty and Bimbo back to the safety of home. 'Minnie the Moocher' served as a promotion for Calloway's subsequent stage appearances and also established Betty Boop as a cartoon star. The eight Talkartoons that followed all starred Betty, leading her into her own series beginning in 1932. With the release of Stopping the Show (August 1932), the Talkartoons were replaced by the Betty Boop series, which continued for the next seven years.Betty Boop was unique among female cartoon characters because she represented a sexual woman. Other female cartoon characters of the same period, such as, displayed their underwear or regularly, in the style of childish or comical characters, not a fully defined woman's form.
Many other female cartoons were merely clones of their male co-stars, with alterations in costume, the addition of eyelashes, and a female voice. Betty Boop wore short dresses, high heels, a garter, and her breasts were highlighted with a low, contoured bodice that showed cleavage. In her cartoons, male characters frequently try to sneak peeks at her while she is changing or simply going about her business. In Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle, she does the wearing nothing but a, strategically placed to cover her breasts, and a grass skirt. This was repeated in her first cameo appearance in (1933). There was, however, a certain girlish quality to the character.
She was drawn with a head more similar to a baby's than an adult's in proportion to her body. This suggested the combination of girlishness and maturity that many people saw in the flapper type, which Betty represented.While the character was kept pure and girl-like onscreen, compromises to her virtue were a challenge. The studio's 1931 Christmas card featured Betty in bed with Santa Claus, winking at the viewer. The Talkartoons and (both 1931) were given distinctly 'impure' endings.
Officially, Betty was only 16 years old, according to a 1932 interview with Fleischer (although in The Bum Bandit, she is portrayed as a married woman with many children and with an adult woman's voice, rather than the standard 'boop-boop-a-doop' voice).Attempts to compromise her virginity were reflected in (1932) and most importantly in (1932). In Chess-Nuts, the Black King goes into the house where Betty is and ties her up. When she rejects him, he pulls her out of the ropes, drags her off to the bedroom and says, 'I will have you'. The bed, however, runs away and Betty calls for help through the window.
Bimbo comes to her rescue, and she is saved before anything happens. In Boop-Oop-a-Doop, Betty is a high-wire performer in a circus. The ringmaster lusts for Betty as he watches her from below, singing 'Do Something', a song previously performed by Helen Kane. As Betty returns to her tent, the ringmaster follows her inside and sensually massages her legs, surrounds her, and threatens her job if she does not submit. Betty pleads with the ringmaster to cease his advances, as she sings '. Is practicing his juggling outside the tent and overhears the struggle inside.
He leaps in to save Betty, struggling with the ringmaster, who loads him into a cannon and fires it. Koko, who remained hiding inside the cannon, knocks the ringmaster out cold with a mallet, while imitating the ringmaster's laugh. Koko then inquires about Betty's welfare, to which she answers in song, 'No, he couldn't take my boop-oop-a-doop away'. According to Jill Harness of, these portrayals of Boop fighting off sexual harassment on the animated screen made many see her as a icon. Under the Production Code.
The transformation from pre-Code to post-CodeBetty Boop's best appearances are considered to be in her first three years due to her ' character and innocent sexuality, which was aimed at adults. However, the content of her films was affected by the and the of 1934. The Production Code of 1934 imposed guidelines on the motion picture industry and placed specific restrictions on the content films could reference with sexual innuendos.
This greatly affected the Betty Boop cartoons.No longer a carefree from the date the code went into effect on July 1, 1934, Betty became a spinster housewife or a career girl who wore a fuller dress or skirt. Additionally, as time progressed, the curls in her hair gradually decreased in number.
She also eventually stopped wearing her gold bracelets and hoop earrings, and she became more mature and wiser in personality, compared to her earlier years. Right from the start, the new head film censor, had numerous complaints.
Breen ordered the removal of the suggestive introduction which had started the cartoons because Betty Boop's winks and shaking hips were deemed 'suggestive of immorality'. For a few entries, Betty was given a new human boyfriend named Freddie, who was introduced in (1934). Next, Betty was teamed with a puppy named Pudgy, beginning with (1934). The following year saw the addition of the eccentric inventor, who debuted in (1935).While these cartoons were tame compared to her earlier appearances, their self-conscious wholesomeness was aimed at a more juvenile audience, which contributed to the decline of the series. Much of the decline was due to the lessening of Betty's role in the cartoons in favor of her co-stars, not to mention Fleischer's biggest success,. This was a similar problem experienced during the same period with 's, who was becoming eclipsed by the popularity of his co-stars, and.Since she was largely a musical novelty character, the animators attempted to keep Betty's cartoons interesting by pairing her with popular characters such as, and, hoping to create an additional spin-off series with her pairing with Popeye in 1933. However, none of these films generated a new series.
When the flapper/jazz era that Betty represented had been replaced by the of the, Fleischer Studios made an attempt to develop a replacement character in this style in the 1938 Betty Boop cartoon Betty Boop and Sally Swing, but it was not a success.The last Betty Boop cartoons were released in 1939, and a few made attempts to bring Betty into the swing era. In her last appearance, Rhythm on the Reservation (1939), Betty drives an open convertible, labeled 'Betty Boop's Swing Band', through a Native American reservation, where she introduces the people to swing music and creates a 'Swinging Sioux Band'.
The Betty Boop cartoon series officially ended with (1939). While Yip Yip Yippy appears at the end of the Betty Boop series, it is actually a one-shot about a 'Drug Store' mail-order cowboy 'wannabe' without Betty, which was written mainly to fill the release schedule and fulfill the contract. Media Television In 1955, Betty's 110 cartoon appearances were sold to television syndicator, which was acquired by (NTA) in 1956. NTA was reorganized in 1985 as, which folded in 2012, and became Melange Pictures, a subsidiary of, the parent company of Paramount.
Paramount, Boop's original home studio (via Melange/Viacom), now acts as a theatrical distributor for the Boop cartoons that they originally released. Television rights are now handled on Paramount's behalf by, which in turn were inherited from, successor to various related companies, including, Republic Pictures Television, and NTA.Betty Boop appeared in two television specials, in 1985, which was produced by and, the same creative team behind the specials; and 1989's and both specials are available on DVD as part of the Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack. She has made cameo appearances in television commercials and the 1988 feature film. While television revivals were conceived, nothing has materialized from the plans.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,.
Although it was set to air sometime in 2019, there haven’t been any update on its status at this point. The show will be aimed towards the tween and teenage audience. The show's premise, according to the article, will 'recount the daily struggles, joys and victories of young Betty Boop, who has every intention of being on stage and becoming a superstar'. Home video While the animated cartoons featuring Betty Boop have enjoyed renewed attention over the last 30 years, official home video releases have been limited to the VHS and collector's sets in the 1990s. There were no such releases for the Betty Boop cartoons on and, up until 2013 when Olive Films finally released the non- cartoons, although they were restored from the original television internegatives that carried the altered opening and closing credits. Volume 1 was released on August 20, 2013, and Volume 2 on September 24, 2013.
Volume 3 was released on April 29, 2014 and Volume 4 on September 30, 2014.Additional DVD releases were made by Fox Lorber, Good Times and Madicy, under the series 'Cartoon Crazys' which far out-sold Olive Films versions by hundreds of thousands of units world wide. A 4 volume box set of DVDs all fully restored Betty Boop Cartoons with original credits came out in 2014 from Good Times and Produced by Thomas R Reich and North Hampton Partners. The series was nominated for best animated restoration by the Canadian Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2015.Comics The Betty Boop comic strip by Bud Counihan (assisted by Fleischer staffer ) was distributed by from July 23, 1934 to November 28, 1937. From November 19, 1984 to January 31, 1988, a revival strip with, was produced by 's sons Brian, Neal, Greg, and Morgan.
In 1990, published Betty Boop's Big Break, a 52-page original by,. In 2016, published new with 20 pages in the alternative American anime graphic novel style., an exhibit of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, a 501(c)3 museum and archive. (November 3, 2007) Quote: 'One day, Dave Fleischer handed Grim a photograph of singer, Helen Kane and asked him to design a caricature. Fleischer had found a sound-alike, and planned to use her in the upcoming Talkartoon, 'Dizzy Dishes'. Grim exaggerated Kane’s wide eyes and rosebud mouth, creating a slightly coarse, but strikingly original design.
A few weeks later, Dave asked Grim to design a girlfriend for Bimbo to star as the 'fair young maiden' in a cartoon adaptation of the popular song, 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor'. Grim streamlined and refined his caricature of Kane for the part. But Dave Fleischer objected, insisting that since Bimbo was a dog, his girlfriend should also be a dog. Grim quickly sketched Betty Boop’s head on a four-legged canine body.
He held up the drawing next to the pretty girl design, and asked, 'Which would you rather have as your girlfriend? Dave laughed and agreed that the pretty girl was the right choice.'
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. Ben Zimmer notes that the syncopation of 'goo-goo-ga-joob' in 's song from ' album and 'coo-coo-ca-choo' from 's song ' on their album is the same as Boop's 'boop-boop-a-doop' or 'boop-boop-be-doop'.
The same pattern was used in the sung 'la-da-di-dah' introduction to the 'Laugh-In Looks at the News' segments on. Zimmer, Ben (November 2011)Citations. Fleischer Studios Incorporated. Fleischer Studios, Inc. And TM Fleischer Studios, Inc. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
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December 16, 2008. Neither NTA’s 1972 acknowledgment in a letter nor the 1997 settlement agreement between Republic and Plaintiff effected a transfer of rights that are good as against the world. At most, these documents evidence the parties’ recognition of rights effective only between the parties. Moreover, neither party to the instant litigation has argued or established that the rights in the original character were or are sever-able from the works in which the original Betty Boop appears.Accordingly, Plaintiff has not demonstrated a chain of title in the relevant cartoon films or the component parts thereof that leads to and terminates with Plaintiff. Stated otherwise, Plaintiff has not established its ownership of the Betty Boop cartoon character.
Accordingly, Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment and Permanent Injunction is DENIED with respect to Plaintiffs copyright infringement claim, and Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED with regard to Plaintiffs copyright infringement claim. Retrieved 2013-04-19. from (April 18, 2011)., March 3, 2009, retrieved January 1, 2017.Bibliography.
Pointer, Ray (2017) The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer North Carolina: McFarland Books. Solomon, Charles (1994). The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings. Outlet Books Company.
Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection, Volumes 1–8 (VHS)Further reading. Taylor, James D., Jr. (2016) The Voice of Betty Boop, Mae Questel. New York: Algora Publishing. Taylor, James D., Jr.
(2017) Helen Kane and Betty Boop. On Stage and On Trial. New York: Algora Publishing.External links.