Unpredictable as Weather (Part 3)
Cartoons struggle against storms, this week including Fleischer’s Bimbo, Charles Mintz’s Toby the Pup, Ub Iwerks’ Flip the Frog, and Van Buren’s Tom and Jerry.
Cartoons struggle against storms, this week including Fleischer’s Bimbo, Charles Mintz’s Toby the Pup, Ub Iwerks’ Flip the Frog, and Van Buren’s Tom and Jerry.
In this instalment we cover these final episodes, as the Talkartoons became virtually indistinguishable from the “new” Boop series which would immediately follow.
By the end of this season, both Bimbo and Betty were getting occasional screen credit, which indicates they were both becoming attractive to exhibitors.
Subject matter was becoming more exotic, developing a house style weirdness that didn’t at all cater to being ootsy-cutesy.
The “Talkartoons” featured Bimbo, who went through much tweaking and development, changing his appearance markedly from cartoon to cartoon.
What better way to wish Betty Boop a happy 90th birthday?
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.
The earliest cartoon robot man appears in the Van Buren Aesop’s Fable talkie The Iron Man. Here’s a survey of all robot men in the 1930s.
Today, let’s watch a new Bimbo cartoon. Or at least one that’s new to me. The Cow’s Husband (1931) is primo early-talkie Fleischer which like all the non-Betty Boop Fleischer…