Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Dave Fleischer

Release Date:

27 January 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Family

Plot:

In a circus tent, Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate some gadgets reminiscent of TV ads; an animated sewing machine gets out of hand. |

Plot Keywords:

Circus | Invention | Koko The Clown | Bimbo The Dog | Typewriter

Cast

Mae Questel

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Betty Boop (voice)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Company:

Fleischer Studios

Soundtrack:

KEEP A LITTLE SONG HANDY

A Sewing Machine Gone Amok? Where Else But In Cartoons?

This was my first look in over 40 years at a Betty Boop cartoon.....and I was impressed. It was pretty funny and very "inventive," pun intended. This really wasn't her style, either, as I have since discovered (singing and dancing was her forte.)

Our girl is outside a circus tent, playing the pipe organ (with little pigs in the inside of it blowing on the pipes). Then we see all the tickets collected the folks running into the tent to see all the inventions. Betty and others demonstrate some of them, many of which were clever and fun to watch, from "soup silencers" to fried eggs right from the hen!

One of the inventions, a sewing machine thread-makers, goes berserk and zips up everything inside and outside the tent, all over town and it's a lot of fun to watch.