Month: July 2020

Originally posted on FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBytluF3gIU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Fleischer Studios (1934) It’s a snowy winter’s night, and a shivering Betty is trying to sleep. Shutting all the windows isn’t enough, so she lights a roaring fire in the fireplace and falls asleep on the hearthplace rug. The heat of the flames soon turns…

Originally posted on FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HaZOXF83zBg?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Fleischer Studios (1932) The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of “St. James Infirmary”. Then Betty Boop gets into a fight with her strict, Yiddish speaking, Jewish parents, and as a result, runs away…