"Red Hot Mamma" (Betty Boop) - Old Skool Cartoons #43

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@marcschirmeister9821 2 ай бұрын

Another cartoon that used Art Kassel’s “Hell’s Bells” was Ub Iwerks 1934 “Hell’s Fire” starring Willie Whopper and filmed in Cinecolor. In “Hell’s Fire”, Willie and his dog are screwing around the smoke belching crater of the World’s most dangerous volcano. Willie tosses a large rock in to see what will happen. The rock falls, conks the Devil on the head, and the honked-off guy in the red birthday suit drags Willie and his dog down into Hell, just in time to see the long anticipated arrival of that much hated sinner Old Man Prohibition, riding a long rail carried by happy little imps. “Hell’s Fire” celebrated the repeal of the Volstead Act by President Roosevelt, and Prohibition- drawn by the editorial cartoonists of the era as a lank, frowning, pinch faced crepe-hanger dressed as a mortician- is sentenced by the Devil to guzzle all the lousy bootleg hootch John Q. Public had to imbibe from 1919 to 1933. I’ve always liked “red Hot Mamma” (which was probably directed by animator Willard Bowsky), and “Hell’s Fire” (which when it was released to TV back in the 1950s had the title changed to either “Masquerade Party” or “Vulcan Entertains”), but I’m disappointed on how slack and dull Kassel’s “Hell’s Bells” was performed on the soundtracks, especially on “Hell’s Fire”. I’ve been spoiled by listening to Kassel’s original 1932 recording of his signature tune on Columbia Records, fast, exciting, and almost sounding like it was off a cartoon soundtrack. Sometimes I’ve wondered about animated cartoons inspiring certain recordings made in the early part of the Great Depression- I’m not talking about songs celebrating Mickey Mouse or Popeye The Sailor Man (and there was a successful but now long forgotten song about him from 1931), but records that sounded like they were cartoon soundtracks, an excellent example being “Mysterious Mose” by the Radio All-Star Novelty Orchestra on Brunswick Records, 1932. But then the American record business was slowly dying in this period, a victim of the Depression, and the record companies were trying anything in the hope that some gimmick would increase their sales and put their ledgers in the black... which didn’t happen. By 1933, Columbia records and its rival Brunswick had gone bankrupt, and Victor (later RCA Victor) survived by allowing their studios to be used for home recordings by whoever could pay for them. Of course, the Fleischers where using uncredited ’78 records for cartoon soundtracks, but they were from dime-store labels, and most of those had gone under thanks to the Depression, so there was no one to complain about copyright violations or royalties. Anyway, that’s my take on “Hell’s Bells”. Just an aside- In 1928, Walt Disney produced the fourth Silly Symphony “Hell’ Bells”, which featured “Funeral March For A Marionette” on the soundtrack. The first Silly Symphony “The Skeleton Dance” was the inspiration for skeletons turning up in other studios cartoons for a few years afterwards. I wonder if Disney’s “Hell’s Bells” didn’t inspire “Red Hot Mamma” or was it just that strong macabre streak the Fleischer cartoons had in that period? That said, I go now.

@theharrbear 2 ай бұрын

could you do fiddlesticks (1930) vs flowers and trees (1932) please?

@Senorpasta09 3 ай бұрын

Pretty Good Review. Btw can you do a review on the woody woodpecker short droolers delight from 1949 Special Note: i havent watched this series in a while so it was a suprise seeing an animated character show up also reviewing the short with you

@3enedictterry 3 ай бұрын

Right. Noted