| Betty Boop and Grampy | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Starring |
Mae Questel Everett Clark [1] [2] Jack Mercer [1] |
| Animation by |
David Tendlar Charles Hastings |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Betty Boop and Grampy is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. [3] The short features Grampy in his first appearance. [4]
Plot
Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm On My Way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop—all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party.
Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices are of the Rube Goldberg variety. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl, and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges.
Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play " Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.
In other media
Allie's Activity Kit CD-Rom has clips from the Betty Boop Cartoon when the games are won.
A short clip from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode " Hell is Other Robots."
Clips from this cartoon are seen in the music video for The Outhere Brothers' " Boom Boom Boom".
A segment of music from this cartoon was sampled for the episode "Fire Dogs 2" of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", when Ren dances to a flute song by Stimpy. [5]
References
- ^ a b "Today's Video Link". News From ME. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
- ^ "Fleischer Promo Art #16: "Betty Slays 'Em!"". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ Betty Boop and Grampy at the Big Cartoon Database[ dead link].
- ^ "Max Fleischer".
External links
- Betty Boop and Grampy at IMDb
- Betty Boop and Grampy at the Internet Archive
- Betty Boop and Grampy on YouTube.
