Synopsis
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
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Minnie the Moocher
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Alternative Titles
米妮公主, ベティの家出, Minnie la Morue
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USA
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USA
11 Mar 1932
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A major weakness in modern animation is that they no longer have Cab Calloway show up to sing one of his standards while psychedelic Halloween imagery dances around him.
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Putting ghosts in jail and then executing them by electric chair is a severe waste of tax dollars
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I cannot tell you how exciting this was to see with an audience. There were two kids in the row in front of us who were bouncing up and down and laughing at everything who went dead silent during this thing. But it wasn't a bored silence, it was an awed silence. Fleischer's pre-code Betty Boops don't move like anything recognizable in the current landscape. They're from an older, subterranean strain of cartoon. Black tar animation.
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With a lovely warm jazz fuelled score from Cab Calloway and his orchestra, this 8 minutes of charcoal cuteness sees Betty Boop leave home as her folks are being mean to her only for her to bump into a pack of ghostly beings whose song and dance routine scare her just enough to go running back home.
Proper wholesome. Boop oop e doop... ooh!
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Meu Deus, como eu te amo Cab Calloway! Esse homem com um corote, um microfone e uma orquestra fez história na música com sua letra e sua dança bizarramente satisfatória!
Betty Boop já enfrentou um doido que morava na montanha, já deu gelo no próprio capeta, já enfrentou um dragão da maldade no país das maravilhas e já fez rainha má virar do avesso. Mas nem ela é capaz de lidar com um fantasma cantor de jazz, mergulhado na cachaça e cantando "Minnie the Moocher"!
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Proper terrifying. I love how dark these Fleischer Betty Boop cartoons get. Minnie the Moocher starts innocently enough but quickly spins off on a bizarre tangent featuring alcoholic skeletons, a Cab Calloway voiced walrus, and ghosts being executed (re-executed?) on electric chairs. It's frightening and brilliant. Minnie the Moocher also features a genuinely hilarious joke. Boop's dad is telling her off and his head morphs into a record player becoming a literal broken record. Boop's mother then fixes the record and proceeds to dance without losing her grim facial expression. Gold.
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Horror x52 2020: Film #28
A horror shortThis picture did to singing walruses what Jaws did to sharks.
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At one point, they run out of new scary things to incorporate so they just start throwing in rhinoceroses and shit. Not a criticism, just an observation. Who am I to get in their way?
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Or: Thank goodness I can always watch something short like a cartoon if I'm feeling not so hot one day. That was me last night... not for its entirety but for a bit my disposition was not great. As this cartoon is known in some circles solely due to its weirdness (in fact, long ago I once saw on another website a discussion of this which morphed into talk of the rotoscoping process used to create the images on screen) it is worthy of discussion.
In only 8 minutes, this Max Fleischer cartoon presents quite a plot, but even before that you briefly see live action footage of Cab Calloway and his band perform. After that, we see Betty Boop…