Betty Boop-Minnie The Moocher [1932]-restored titles

This was taken from an old VHS compilation from the 1980's. As you can see the original Paramount logos are intact as are the title cards.
This is one of the classic Betty Boop cartoon in which Cab Calloway appears

[@brianjschumer]

Brilliant fun, and to think this was 90 years ago. Hauntingly beautiful

[@scarletweb2106]

I never watch Betty Boop but I watch old cartoons

[@Lshannon90]

I find Cab Calloway and this cartoon to be waaaay cooler than anything that's around today

[@BavonWW]

You're right there....

[@Venus-zn3qo]

I love the dancer . He dances so beautiful

[@scarletweb2106]

Yeah me too

[@connorcleary9535]

Directed by Dave Fleischer Animation by William Bowsky and Ralph Somerville Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date: February 28, 1932

[@kkittycityy]

*Willard Bowsky

[@superleviathan]

AWESOME find. I knew this print with original titles was issued on laserdisc in 1990, but I never realized the same print was issued on VHS too. The Fleischer Story and at least one PBS documentary used the opening to support a contention that Betty Boop is Jewish (probably because her dad looks like he's wearing a yarmulke). But not only is hossenfeffer (what they're trying to get Betty to eat) a German dish, but rabbits aren't even Kosher.

[@mrspeeder247]

5:09 Are we NOT gonna talk about the creepy background images?

[@amandatarver3014]

There always creepy images in betty boop cartoons

[@clarissagafoor5222]

Yickes, I see what you mean! :-0

[@davidwesley2525]

BETTY BOOP'S SNOW WHITE had a creepy background with skeletons .

[@southparklucas]

Tara Strong: Voice, Cartoon Network: Channel, what's stopping them from making more of this gold?

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in January 1932, and the only one to feature Betty's "Germanesque" parents. Cab's movements were "rotoscoped" (traced onto animation sheets) for the "walrus ghost". Very few Max Fleischer/Paramount theatrical prints are known to exist, as almost all of the master negatives were acquired by U.M.& M. TV in 1955, which refilmed the titles (originally without Fleischer's credits- he was forced to sue them to have them reinstated) and spliced them directly onto the negatives.

[@ptorq]

That's Cab Calloway. (And I bet you thought Michael Jackson invented the moonwalk.) If you'd like to see him sing the entire song as, more or less, himself rather than an animated walrus, you could rent the Blues Brothers movie ... it was made about 50 years later, but yes, that's him playing Curtis. As a bonus, he's being backed by (among others) Tom Malone, Lou Marini, and Alan Rubin.

[@spudgy86]

Please keep Mae and all the lovely flapper babies alive in the ears of the much younger generations!

[@marcschirmeister9821]

Forget John Lennon- Cab Calloway IS the walrus.

[@davidgibson7615]

Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@geraldmarkowitz]

Cab Calloway. He's the warlus.

[@fromthesidelines]

His movements were rotoscoped for that sequence.

[@davidwesley2525]

@geraldmarkowitz The Walrus was CAB , Not John , Not Paul. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@kiki902143]

Cab Calloway is fucking cool. Straight up.

[@brianjschumer]

He was Bas Ass cool..and 90 years ago!!

[@MrUnidyne]

The drug references in the song are amazing. I'm astonished that this made it past the Hays Office!

[@davidwesley2525]

THE HAYES CODE WENT INTO EFFECT AFTER JULY 1934.

[@cupheadfromcuphead164]

This was 1932, hays code went in to effect as David mentioned, went in to effect in 1934

[@bluesdealer]

Didn’t exist yet. I think Betty Boop went downhill after 1934 because of that.

[@robfriedrich2822]

Looks better, than the "TV" company.

[@ferociousgumby]

Nothing like a few executions to entertain the kiddies 5:42

[@RayPointerChannel]

@fromthesidelines Max's name appears on the optical reconstructed U.M.& M. titles of all of the BETTY BOOP cartoons. These were not the cartoons sited for Max's suit.

[@bettyboop7689]

don't you just hate it when you run away from home with your dog friend and come across a creepy old cave and decide to go inside it and a ghost walrus comes out of nowhere and decides to sing and then you get chased by ghosts and it drives you to go back home?

[@calebacosta541]

She ran away because her parents told her to eats food she didn't want to. She is such a five year old.

[@davidwesley2525]

BETTY BOOP ACTS LIKE A FIVE YEAR OLD BUT DRESSES LIKE A NIGHTCLUB SINGER. L.O.L.

[@whistlegirllovewhistleguy1167]

It's because her parents cooks really bad (sorry for bad English)

[@bettyboop7689]

@@davidwesley2525 acts five, sounds 3, looks 22, is actually 16

[@RayPointerChannel]

@RockinEd No, that's not what happened at all. It's just that when the VHS release was made, they used a neg that was not altered with the U.M. & M title changes. When it was released in THE BETTY BOOP SCANDALS OF 1974, the title was enlarged to the extent that the original Paramount-Publix signature was cropped.

[@Xsilif]

Is that Mae Questel doing Betty’s voice?

[@scarletweb2106]

Yes

[@RadicalCaveman]

Look at him dancing...do you think he was a ladies' man, much? ;)

[@mirianmoreiradecastroolive9930]

BETTY BOOP. Sempre VIVA !

[@sittinginaquietplace]

Damn, I wish I could dance like Cab Calloway.

[@scarletweb2106]

Yeah me too

[@kinseykeyes1185]

They seem to use a similar dance sequence in a lot of the Betty Boop cartoons.

[@grimm-mementos]

Cab Calloway

[@aleccaprari8664]

Rotoscoped Cab! He's the walrus!

[@toonifnt]

Cracked up when she changed the sound of the phonograph-head.

[@scarletweb2106]

So hilarious

[@princessgogo1996]

This is so freaky... Good freaky!

[@dannysquirrel]

03:14 KoKo The Klown makes a cameo! That's brilliant!

[@No-hd4cg]

03:14

[@Lawson578]

That’s Right, He Made A Cameo, This is Correct!

[@RadicalCaveman]

This is pre-Code, 1932.

[@marvinmuonekejazz]

Does anybody know if this was restored with original titles on the Blu ray Betty Boop collection?

[@ohnogloop2899]

+Marvin The Jazzman They scanned the negatives for the Blu-Ray release; in which the UM&M titles were spliced in for. This version, however, as you see in this video, likely came from a slightly detoriorating 16mm print, which for the likes of others are very rare nowadays and fall into "private collectors".

[@RayPointerChannel]

@fromthesidelines My, you know so much about this. You are undoubtedly the Fleischer expert! Especially so about "restorations." Pardon me, but a restoration would have removed the frame jumps and splice lines in the opening titles. Simply returning the Paramount "trademark" is not enough to qualify as a restoration. Also a true restoration would have avoided the DVNR effects. Would you happen to know what that is as well? Perhaps you could elucidate on that.

[@RayPointerChannel]

@ParamountCartoons Yes and no. The situation here is what I described. As a point of reference, it is best to credit the source for such information that does not come directly for your own personal knowledge or resources. Since so many dupe negs were made, it is not entirely accurate to say that such things are completely true. In the case of the Screen Songs, only one so far exists with the original Paramount open and tag, AIN'T SHE SWEET, with Lillian Roth.

[@ElieMorris]

Papa was wearing a Yarmulke.

[@scarletweb2106]

Wow Betty's father is jewish

[@Lethargichuman]

anyone know if it's possible to find this one version of the song somewhere?

[@chickypooh73]

Curtis was a janitor or a teacher or something in the blues brothers

[@elizabethhann4028]

Yes, but why was Cab a *GHOST WALRUS?*

[@capacola262743]

the lady who supplied the voice was. also, i think the actress who she is based on was too. but i don't know if that is a bald spot on her father or a yarmelke.

[@Lethargichuman]

@skeilak Yup I desperately searched for it but I can only find another version of the song, which I already have on CD :/

[@superleviathan]

Can't be. Like I said, under Jewish dietary law, eating rabbit is a no-no. If you listen closely, the parents are speaking in a stereotypical German accent (with the w sound pronounced as a V)

[@connorcleary9535]

Country: USA Language: English Release date: 28 February 1932

[@brendamaybery6897]

Cab was the definition of hot...

[@calebacosta541]

That's why it is funny

[@RockinEd]

@ElColombianGuy The Fleischer Bros-Dave and Max were Jewish so I guess Betty Boop is too. Now Popeye is non-Jewish as he was already in existance when the Fleichers got the OK to produce the cartoon LOL

[@domagojcapko4152]

OK so let's sum up what happened in that cave: 1 three guys were executed 2 three guys were poisoned 3 bunch of people drown in well 4 cat feed her infants on her own body to keep them alive, but they starved anyway 5 their ghosts became slaves of evil witch So, let's say many bad shit happened in that cave

[@MamonFighter2ndChannel]

What title of this vhs release?

[@princessgogo1996]

@HomeSkillet489 From what I know, he's calling her very ungrateful and she's doing bad in school... thats all i could pick up.

[@RayPointerChannel]

@ParamountCartoons Please provide your source of information. Please clarify what exactly you are saying. Are you positive?

[@xXxDamonBairDxXx]

jajaja que buen trip

[@ferociousgumby]

5:15 does "cokey" mean into cocaine?

[@brendamaybery6897]

Yes it does.

[@davidwesley2525]

And kick the gong around means into heroin.

[@Arbeedubya]

@@davidwesley2525 And "nickels and dimes" references "nickel bags" ($5 worth) and "dime bags" ($10 worth) of heroin.

[@floraa.3312]

6:00 tól mi az, ami ott lifeg a szellem fenekén? :DD

[@simonkingbo7926]

She crying

[@RadicalCaveman]

I wonder if John Lennon ever saw this.

[@johnbarrett928]

like a lot

[@uwebde]

Fucking Hell - at 00:30 looks like Moonwalk...

[@RockinEd]

The Walrus was Paul Koo Koo Ka Joob!!!

[@davidwesley2525]

The walrus was CAB .

[@42xeloR]

I don't get I Am the Walrus. John Lennon literally stated he was the walrus in that song. Then, a year later in Glass Onion, they say the walrus was Paul. So who's the real walrus?

[@djjensen3139]

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[@RockinEd]

@fromthesidelines well obviously they missed one!! LOL

[@djjensen3139]

Mickey Mouse Betty boop

[@cupheadfromcuphead164]

Hello B I M B O

[@djjensen3139]

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[@MultiSwagmuffin]

4:25

[@scarletweb2106]

Wow Betty's parents are jewish but the song is creepy