The Online 16mm Cartoon Carnival: August Edition
What better way to wish Betty Boop a happy 90th birthday?
Tag Archives: Betty Boop
Toons Trip Out (Part 1)
It appears to be an appropriate time to live vicariously through the efforts of our classic toon stars to find some vacation R&R domestically and abroad.
Forests of Cartoons – and ‘Any Rags’ (1932)
Bimbo goes on a musical salvaging journey and ends up happy with a little money, a house (albeit made of trash) and a new girlfriend in Betty Boop.
Ottawa Animation Festival – and “Grampy’s Indoor Outing” (1936)
This one reads more like a journal entry than post this week, but it ends with Betty Boop, and that can’t be all bad!
Animation Anecdotes #390
On the back of the Poor Cinderella sheet music, it states: “Betty Boop will be forever young. She is the only screen star who possess eternal youth”.
Max Fleischer’s Betty Boop on LP Records
She was the queen of the animated screen and her cartoons were filled with great music, it wasn’t until the 1970’s that she made her debut on LP records.
Animation Anecdotes #362
In 1993, it was announced in the trades that Betty Boop would make her animated feature film debut for MGM by the Zanuck Company – but the film was never made.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1984
The Academy shorts branch had to sit through the Bill Melendez Betty Boop special. That ought to teach ’em for never awarding anything to Max Fleischer.
A Who’s Who Guide To Home Movie Cartoons – Part 1: Carnival Films!
Today- a little about ‘Carnival Films’, a tiny company who’s history remains a mystery!
Halloween Cartoons Revisited!
It’s become a yearly tradition here at Cartoon Research to ask what your favorite Halloween cartoons are. Here are some of mine.
