Why the Betty Boop Cartoons Were CENSORED in 1934

[@timmotel5804]

I was born in 1952. As a kid, I watched and loved Betty Boop cartoons. The "deviants" were the Censors... Loved this. Thanks.

[@tunesmith7437]

I was born in '46 and I agree with you. The allure of BB was mild compared to the 1970's.

[@is4bella._.21]

It was because the cartoon was actually for adults, Not kids.

[@timmotel5804]

@@is4bella._.21 I must have been an "adult kid" then.

[@b3rryp4wz]

uh i was born in the 2000s

[@b3rryp4wz]

am i young or smth

[@mattfarahsmillionmilelexus]

The early Betty Boop cartoons are really bizarre, especially the haunted theme versions. But they are very entertaining, and richly animated in a way that can never be duplicated no matter the technology.

[@lindaeasley5606]

That seemed to be the case with just about every animation studio back in the '20s to early '30s . Some kind of obssession with the occult. There's the classic Dance of the Skeletons in 1929 by Walt Disney

[@davidsatterwhite5812]

They also used the Rotoscope which gave the Fleisher cartoon their natural like movements. Something the Disney and other animators couldn't imitate.

[@geraldwilliams1080]

Betty Boop doing"St.James Infirmary" with Cab Callaway is still a classic cartoon... my favorite!

[@davidsatterwhite5812]

@@geraldwilliams1080 thanks for letting me know. I gotta check it out.

[@FoxRivers778]

Like "Red Hot Mamma" where demons are dancing around her.

[@lordzeke7307]

What people forget is that cartoons were made for movie theaters as TV wasn't invented yet

[@ellenchavez2043]

I love Betty Boop. They would show her cartoons on Saturday morning, early. I lived her carefree, independent working and learning living on her own. Because Bimbo and Coco were her friends, they all helped each other out. It never seemed like she was a damsel in distress,being rescued. Rather, it was her friends looking out for her. I was really glad to see her revival.

[@bluebuzzdog]

I grew up with Betty in reruns in the late 50s-early 60s. Her cartoons were my introduction to surrealism. I still love them.

[@CAMacKenzie]

I've heard that Ha! Ha! Ha! was banned for drug use (Koko climbs out of the inkwell, needs dental work, so Betty gives him Laughing Gas, which gets away and affects everybody and everything, very surreal!), but I remember seeing it on an afternoon cartoon show on TV in the 1950s. Also other early Betty Boops.

[@catty8516]

🗿

[@frankv.2124]

yes, and also Tex Avery cartoons, I was such a fan that I even named my son Tex....and i'm from Belgium ! 😃

[@paulsto6516]

Betty has always been my favorite cartoon character. And Max Fleischer let her kick the gong around with cab Calloway. Perfection!

[@marlinpace514]

And I wouldn't be surprised if her and Cab Calloway had something to do with the Hayes act applied to her

[@jewelzb1402]

She messed around with a bloke named Smoky She loved him though he was cokey He took her down to Chinatown And he showed her how to kick the gong around 🎶 Hidee hidee hidee hi Whoah Hee dee hee dee hee dee hee A hidee hidee hidee ho 😂😂😂 Of course, those are some of the lyrics to minnie the moocher. Haha.

[@hambone5718]

I think the wording is, "kick the GALL around", but could be wrong.

[@paulsto6516]

@@hambone5718 Kicking the GONG was slang for smoking opium.

[@dyscotopia]

I was a huge fan of early cartoons as a kid, especially the fluid, surreal Fleischer house style.. I recognized that Betty was meant to be sexy and found her endearing, but she didn't turn me into a deviant. That was left to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues and scrambled satellite porn.

[@Buck1954]

I agree

[@fnjesusfreak]

I think it's because she was more of a "cute-sexy".

[@davidwesley2525]

@@fnjesusfreak Betty Boop is definitely CUTE-SEXY. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@DMSProduktions]

@@fnjesusfreak Yes, an 'innocent' sexy! She WASN'T for want of a better word, 'slutty'!

[@technomaster3152]

I figured out how to alter a TV set's horizontal oscillator circuit in order to decode scrambled porn without a decoder box.

[@bobsanders9114]

The voiceover comments, writing, technique and delivery are MUCH improved on this channel. A lot of good work has been done.

[@walterreeves3679]

I saw my first Betty Boop cartoons in the late 1970s when they were released to theaters in a compilation containing the ones featuring Cab Calloway. They were a double revelation. I've been a fan ever since. Thanks for this long overdue appreciation!

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

All of us Boomers were raised with Betty Boop, Popeye, Merry Melodies, etc., all the cartoons that our parents would see at the theatre at Saturday matinees. All of them were fun, light-hearted, and full of music. I think that they are one reason our generation was so active in popular music.

[@kimaglioti7775]

My Mom loved her.

[@nahkohese555]

Back in the 60s, my dad managed to find 8mm films of all the old classics - Betty Boop, Popeye, Felix the Cat, Woody Woodpecker, and more. They had been redone like silent movies, with the dialog frames added. It was great fun watching them.

[@geronimo67]

Sweeeet!

[@TheRMBoyd]

Please post them if you still have them!

[@marlenesingleton8839]

Very interesting, I didn't know when Betty Boop was created. In the past I had seen pictures of her but didn't think much about it. Now I know who the cartoonist is that created her. Thanks for sharing.

[@michaelmckenna6464]

Betty Boop actually evolved, starting out as anthroposophical human/puppy until her floppy ears were replaced by earrings and her black nose was replaced by an upturned nose.

[@dickrichard626]

@@michaelmckenna6464 She went from creepy to slightly less, but still creepy looking. 😆 The head shape combined with the disproportionate placement of the other features didn't really look good then and still doesn't now. It invokes feelings of tripping balls and to have that face on a relatively normal looking body is basically just grotesque.

[@howlalongwithspot6785]

We grew up washing a lot of the Fleischer cartoons, and they likely influenced our button art. It's important to note that the harassment wasn't just feminism but class view, the code attacked more than sex, but moved things into the non-urban, non-working class view point of leave it to beaver. Fleischer cartoon's were more likely to show cracks on the walls, light bulbs hanging from ceilings without globes or shades, are other signs of people living in less than medium income conditions.

[@grantsolomon7660]

Excellent point I never noticed that point of view before.

[@rgnyc]

You're right. Even the few urban shows that existed in the 1950s (e.g. "The Goldbergs") more or less sanitized the world. Although the gritty quality of the Kramden apartment appalled me even as a child.

[@lawrencewheeler7837]

I reviewed many of the comments on Betty boop I was the only one who noticed when Betty was on pop eye she was and is black when she's on her own changed white.

[@carsonm7292]

@@lawrencewheeler7837 I have to imagine that was supposed to be a tropical tan.

[@marlinpace514]

Actually in the early Betty Boops she was a DOG. She morhed to human. The dark skinned one I remember she was an islander doing the hula in a grass skirt

[@buailebawns2162]

The National Institute of Decency need to be investigated for indecency.

[@TampaDave]

The main job qualification of a censor is that you must have a very DIRTY mind and believe everyone else does, too. These are people who would ban all ink blots and cloud formations for the filth they see there.

[@stardolphin2]

Mae West had about the same problems, at the same time, with the same result that she wasn't as much fun when portrayed more restrained...

[@tuckergary1516]

worse yet lucy and dizze seperate beds

[@lohphat]

Those who screech about morality should be the first investigated.

[@gorillaau]

Investigate those that preach "Think of the children" first.

[@skyden24195]

Along with my brother and sister, kids in the 1980's, we used to watch the compilation feature, "Hooray For Betty Boop," constantly. One of the most fascinating aspects of the cartoon was the inclusion of Cab Calloway and his song "Minnie the Moocher," which was an extra bonus since we were also fans of "The Blues Brothers" film which included the same singer and song.

[@alanfoster6589]

Insignificant side note: that is a Tahitian hula Betty performs; not Hawaiian. Way faster, much faster hip movements, use of legs bent at the knee. At the time (1930's) nobody in the U.S. knew the difference(s).

[@henrimatisse7481]

great insight, thanks!

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

On the other hand, she finally gets lei'd.

[@Darknamja]

I did notice that they darkened her complexion. 👀

[@scotpens]

The Tahitian dance is the tamure, not hula.

[@alanfoster6589]

@@scotpens I know (I lived in Tahiti for awhile, back in 1973, and I once won a very minor dance competition in Kauai). But for purposes of discussing Betty's movements, I said "hula" for those unfamiliar with the difference. I suppose I could have elaborated more. I remember one dancer who could reverse her fa'arapa. You can find some of that on youtube. Hugely impressive control.

[@michaelmorgan7893]

With the stuff they let pass nowadays, they have no room to judge Betty Boop. Those are beautiful old classic cartoons

[@JackBWatkins]

As a kid in the late 50’s and early 60’s, Betty Boop cartoons were part of the mix of Saturday Morning cartoons on TV. It explains why I am fascinated by old Clara Bow films.

[@gooddognigel4947]

Same here. I watched those reruns whenever they were on.

[@myreadingmapped]

Me too! When I was five I loved to watch Betty Boop, Popeye, Felix the Cat and Bimbo cartoons. And of course Whimpy who always said " I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." He was what made McDonalds rise to fame because we grew up with Whimpy.

[@eddieboggs8306]

Betty started out as half human, half animal. The Hayes code came into existence and Betty wears more clothes.

[@DMSProduktions]

1st FURRY icon?

[@EamonThePhilogynistWalford]

And in a reversal of that, Bosko and Honey - the first Warner Bros. cartoon stars - would end up being redesigned as dog-like creatures in their Tiny Toon Adventures appearance. Which would, in turn, influence the look (if indirectly) of Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner in Animaniacs. 😉

[@scotpens]

The Motion Picture Production Code -- the so-called "Hays Code" -- was actually written in 1930, but the industry didn't start seriously enforcing it until about halfway through 1934.

[@a1productionllc]

I loved Betty ever since I was a kid, she was always funny.

[@montesmith5488]

I’m a Boomer, grew up watching Bett Boop, Our Gang, Three Stooges, Bowery Boys, Tarzan, Popeye ect. Did not become a racist, sex crazed serial killer ect. There is way too much worry about the impact of Sex and violence in entertainment. I doubt that the great majority who play GTA will go out and hijack a car. It probably says more about the people who worry so much about this stuff than the item of entertainment itself.

[@michaelmumford6351]

You said it!

[@grantsolomon7660]

Absofuckinlutely

[@bonitamartin4954]

I love watching old cartoons. Betty is among my favorites.

[@x5775]

My spouse and I enjoy "classic" films; especially pre-code movies, shorts, etc. It seems even the cartoons were more interesting/entertaining pre-code. Thanks for a thoughtful video about Betty Boop cartoons, birth through "re-birth".

[@travelertime4382]

"even the cartoons were more interesting/entertaining pre-code" Just like before MAGA ? Just saying ! : )

[@rodneystanger1651]

@@travelertime4382 WTF are you on about??

[@gordonwelcher9598]

​@@travelertime4382 Just like before woke.

[@Voodoomaria]

Nip-Slip 1930's style, That's why the Hays Office came down on Betty. In at least three of her cartoons, Bare Boobies. Of the 117 Betty Boob cartoons, I have 116 of them [Including the Popeye the sailor first cartoon]. Betty Boop was one of the focal points justifying the establishment of The Hays Office, and Motion Picture Production Code. She was just far too racy for a cartoon. Update: ONE YEAR LATER. I FINALLY obtained the missing Betty Boop cartoon, my set is now complete. AND IN ADDITION, I have added well over a dozen OTHER Cartoons made prior to her main series where-in Betty had cameos.

[@JazzMaven]

Early days of the American Taliban...

[@michaelmckenna6464]

Max Fleischer obviously hated the censors and dedicated himself to trying to slip a frame or two under their noses. While playing one cartoon frame by frame, there were single frames where Betty’s cleavage was clearly illustrated. But these frames passed by faster than a blink.

[@Voodoomaria]

@@michaelmckenna6464 All of the animation houses hated the Hays office and took great delight in "slipping one past them". All references to spitting and vomiting were banned, so in one western themed Warners cartoon, the town was named "Rising Gorge",A Shakespearian reference to throwing up. The writers with MGM used to submit scripts with a dozen completely over-the- top jokes, so by the time the censors got to the joke the writers REALLY wanted, they felt guilty, and let it pass because it wasn't as bad as the others. All the major animation houses made direct "fourth wall"jokes about the Hays office, and the obvious jokes that the censors wouldn't allow. Not surprisingly, the ONLY animation house that didn't chafe under the yoke of censorship was Disney, and themselves became a joke usable by other animation houses who frequently "re-interpreted" Disney shorts with a more mature spin.

[@SLINGSHOTWORLDTV]

There was a frame, which was paid homage to in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where a knickerless naked vulva shows for a moment. Just a little upstroke of the cartoonist's pen. The car crash into a lamp post in Toontown. It is on the Laserdisc..

[@Voodoomaria]

@@SLINGSHOTWORLDTV I know the scene, Had they painted panties on Jessica rabbit, instead of the flesh, toned shadow then the image would have "popped" instantly drawing the eye of the viewer Instead they basically "Barbie-dolled" her, and left it in shadow, that's why so few people are aware of the scene. If they wanted people to "see" it [that is, be consciously aware of it], then they would have given her black, or white panties, or a bikini bottom matching her gown. I taught myself traditional 2D cell animation as a hobby in my youth, so I examined Hundreds of cartoons frame by frame to see how the masters were doing what they did. Some things like the Jessica Rabbit shot were simply necessities for the scene [ Remember, In traditional animation there is story-boarding, and three stages of cell creation BEFORE the individual cells reach ink and paint, and every stage is scrutinized by the director, the animation director, AND the chief animator. "Slipping In" a scene was always a cooperative effort to get something past the censors, "Roger Rabbit" didn't have censors to worry about, THEY had the Disney Corporate structure overseeing their content, and the director, Director of animation, and Chief animator are very much a part of that structure, and it's THEIR jobs on the line if they try to sneak something like this in deliberately. They always had the option of altering Jessica's flight path during principle animation, before it made it to the assistant animator, the in-betweener, or the inker, but they went with this option. It fell to the colourist to recognize the problem [up to this point everything is a black and white line drawing] and find a fix. They did the best with what the scene offered. Flash animation commonly used today, entire scenes are created and coloured BEFORE the actual animation is carried out, and everything can be done with a single person at a keyboard. Now the nude woman in the window during the city fly-by scene in "The Rescuers", THAT was something that got sneaked in, and it was done by probably in the Camera stage, because it was too large to not be noticed when the Background artist's work was being cleared by the director. The audience sees it roaring bast at 80 miles per hour, everyone behind the scenes sees a static painting that remains unmoving the whole time.

[@grantsolomon7660]

As a kid the innuendo contained in Betty Boo went right over my head, the same goes for super chicken,Rocky the flying squirrel and Roger ramjet.

[@danfarris135]

I work with a girl who would make a real life Betty. I had to show her the old cartoon as she didn’t even know about it.

[@davidwesley2525]

Does she closely resemble Betty Boop ?

[@makeminefreedom]

Censorship has ruined classic cartoons. Nothing is worth watching anymore.

[@hambone5718]

More erasing of history it seems. A lot of cartoons that reflected the times they were made in have been ruined by cuts of scenes, cuts of certain words, or entirely not even available, all being deemed racist or something else just as dumb. THEY ARE CARTOONS. Sad. Very sad.

[@michaelmumford6351]

You said it.

[@freedomforever6718]

An tragic example of how government involvement ruins everything.

[@keithhalsey5548]

As a child growing up in SD on a farm we had a galvanized steel silo. I was 9 in 1960. On the side of the old silo was a pencil drawn silhouette of Betty it was about a foot tall and expertly done. My father explained her significance to me when I had gotten older!!

[@caseysmith544]

Where in South Dakota? I have lived in Pierre (Pier) Since January 1, 2001.

[@stevenbaer5999]

I have to admit that she is actually the best cartoon character. I have seen that modern day girls have Betty Boop tattoos.

[@timmotel5804]

@@stevenbaer5999 but, I always thought that only drunken sailors in foreign ports were supposed to have tattoos?!

[@henrikharbin5521]

My ate brother was mostly a Disney fan, but he also introduced me to older cartoons like Felix the Cat, early Popeye, Beany and Cecil, Hrrcules, and Betty Boop. It was particularly interesting when I found out, during research for a college paper, that Popeye was originally a guest in a Betty cartoon.

[@michaelmckenna6464]

Popeye started out even earlier as a minor character who first appeared in Segar’s Thimble Theater comic strip in 1929, ten years after the comic strip started. but his popularity took off until he became the main character and the first cartoon was in 1933.

[@mikethebike2456]

🏍️ Who ate your brother ?

[@henrikharbin5521]

LATE... sorry, I'm legally blind and sometimes don't pick up on the mistrakes I make.

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

Personally, I like Betty Boop. I think her cartoons were very interesting. And they definitely have their charm.

[@markmccoy7062]

I do agree with that but i have seen Betty Boop on KZbin i never seen her on tv i do love her voice but i do like to see her on tv

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

@tony borelli It means its my personal opinion and view point.

[@TheParkAttendant]

I did see Betty Boop cartoons on reruns as a kid I even got to see a scene that was censored in a documentary. A sentry was sleeping on the job with an alarm clock on his belt. Betty walk wound the hands of clock until the alarm went off. It was censored because she "wound up his clock", which was concidered sexual innuendo back then.

[@JazzMaven]

I remember that one, too!

[@MrEdWeirdoShow]

Great stuff. Betty's studio would never dare to pay Helen Kane anything, because that legal example would have resulted in them having to pay a hundred times more than that to the incredible icon Clara Bow. Boop!

[@VoightKampf]

I had a crush on Betty since I was 5 years old. Sixty-five years later, and her cartoons are still my favorite.

[@hkschubert9938]

When I was a little kid back in the late 1950s Betty Boop was still on TV and I loved her! Great history video thanks! Brings back memories!

[@kevinwatts661]

Rich, I always enjoy your videos because they're well-written and filled with interesting information, plus your narration style is personal and conversational. Thank you.

[@dave3657]

2:08 Mae was in the 1989 movie National Lampoons Christmas Vacation as Aunt Bethany.

[@jiwbink]

AND THEN YOU MORE OFTEN THAN NOT,LEARN THAT THE VERY PEOPLE PUSHING THE STRICT "RULES AND GUIDELINES" ARE INVOLVED IN THE SICKEST,MOST DEPRAVED THINGS GOING!

[@lisaknox7722]

Betty boop was one of the classic animation. And she was so cute.

[@nunyabizness6595]

You do great work, sir. Entertaining but always informative.

[@REBELSCL]

Male born in 54.. Always loved Betty.. I may not have originally understood why..but I caught on pretty quickly…

[@jimtongas821]

Grew up watching Betty as a kid in the late 50s-early 60s. One sexy cartoon character. Also remember the old man in the early ones. He used to create all kinds of items from junk around the house.

[@keithschrack]

That was "Grampy."

[@michaelmumford6351]

That was Grampy.

[@night-x6793]

I remember seeing a lot of merchandise in the 90's and early 2000's which the funny part is I figure out that Betty was a cartoon character but never watched any the shows because I could find any TV channels that would have it until about 20 years later when internet video sites got more functional to watch them.

[@Starsk25]

I asked my mom (who was born in 1935) what was "wrong" with Betty Boop? My mom said "she's just a party girl".

[@night-x6793]

@@Starsk25 Guessing the party girl thing is more better then a traveling prostitute or any other sex based name for that matter?

[@Hillers62]

At 2:13 ...she was also the voice of little Audrey...

[@ge0rgeharris218]

Betty Boop would be cool today! She was the cartoon IT girl of that Era and should be brought back to life!

[@artfuldodger7838]

Betty Boop was based on Baby Esther. Look her up. She's a live action Betty.

[@EWOODJ]

She's not the only influence. There is a lot more than people are claiming.

[@kingpong61]

I heard about Baby Esther a few years ago and sent her Wikipedia article to several friends. Apparently, Helen Kane and one if the Fleischer brothers went to see Esther perform in a Harlem nightclub doing her song and dance act where she sang 'boop oop a doop' and Ms. Kane and the Fleischer bros. stole her act without Esther's permission nor gave her any credit or residual pay.

[@RayPointerChannel]

Betty Boop was a caricature of Helen Kane, who copied the scat singing she heard from child performer, "Baby" Esther Jones, who in turn was imitating others such as Gertrude Saunders. Many were doing this sort of thing. But where Helen Kane went wrong was in claiming that she originated it. It was proven that she did not. Neither did Esther Jones for that matter. But the sound film of her demonstrated that Miss Kane was not unique. THAT in a nutshell is the true story.

[@RayPointerChannel]

@@kingpong61 "The Fleischer Brothers?" Which ones? Lou Fleischer was a big fan of Jazz and frequented the Cotton Club. I knew him late in life. He was a man of high principles and had no knowledge of Esther Jones until the lawsuit came up. At the same time, I have been associated with the research on this story for several decades. It has only been within the last four or five years that the complete details about Esther Jones have come to surface, proving first of all that she was a Child Performer, not an adult woman as had been falsely circulated on KZbin and elsewhere on the Internet. The only indication of Esther being a child was the free use in the NY TIMES article referring to "Black Girl," "Baby Esther Jones, etc. The Fleischers were not aware of her since Esther performed in smaller arenas such as The Everglades Club in Manhattan. She never appeared at The Cotton Club, as many have claimed. The creation of Betty Boop was the result of what was originally intended as a one-shot cameo caricature based on Helen Kane in the 1930 cartoon, DIZZY DISHES. The reaction to this character in the New York preview was so sensational that Paramount encouraged the continued development of this character. The complication was that as this deliberate caricature of Helen Kane came about as Paramount severed its contract with her at the time of its bankruptcy reorganization in 1930. Since there were various forms of this type of scat singing, it was difficult to place any individual as the originator. However, the history seems to go back to women like Gertrude Saunders in 1920. Esther Jones was a Child Performer who was trained for an act and encouraged to imitate the likes of Miss Saunders, who was know for this type of singing. It was when Helen Kane saw Esther's act on two occasions that she did the same and rose to fame as "The Boop-Oop-A-Doop Girl, as coined by the Press. When the Betty Boop cartoons started as a formal series in 1932, she filed her lawsuit claiming that the cartoons were unfair competition and had stolen her audience. But by being a public figure, she had no exclusivity to her image. At the same time, her form of singing was not unique to her either, as proven in the court case. Another detail to consider is the personality that Helen Kane displayed compared to Betty Boop. First, Helen Kane came late in the 1920s when the Flapper Era was on the way out. Betty Boop has been compared to the 20s flapper but looked nothing at all like the "Flapper" in her attire. She was more of a representation of the "Jazz Baby" concept in her bathing suit/negligee costume, which Helen Kane never wore. Also, Betty's hair style with the spit curls was short and plastered down to her head, where Helen Kane's hair was "feathered." So this claim of copying her hair style was also false. But most of all, she was not the originator of "Boop-Oop-A-Doop," as the case proved. But then Esther Jones was not the originator, either as explained above.

[@IvanRodriguez-hl4pg]

I always thought of actress Joan Blondel as a live action Betty Boop.

[@remaguire]

Watch Betty Boop cartoons? Oh, yeah! When I was a kid growing up near New York City in the 60s, I distinctly remember all those 1930s Max Fleischer cartoons on local TV. Love them all. Betty Boop, Popeye, Koko the Clown. But one of my all time favorite Betty cartoons was the one in which Koko sings the St. James Infirmary Blues. Great fun!

[@matrox]

I grew up watching the sexy BB in the late 50s and 60s cartoons on TV. They were more popular than the restricted mandated ones that got a lot less air time.

[@travelertime4382]

Oh THAT"S where I saw them ! : )

[@MarklovesAngels]

GREAT video and overview of a very appealing cartoon character whose popularity continues over ninety years later. Amazing!

[@timheersma4708]

Betty Boop was before my time, but Felix the Cat and Popeye were regular shows to watch in my youth. (Felix the Cat I still remember the theme ...whenever he is in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks" :D

[@Mister_Pedantic]

I remember those Felix cartoons from when I was a child. We kids didn't understand what a Master Cylinder was or a Solenoid Robot. You can find some of them on YT. They're pretty lame, looking at them now. But Popeye is timeless.

[@joelstein4657]

I watched them as a small boy in the forties and fifties. Believe me, I was very aware of her sexuality, even as a kid. I think she's one of the reason I am a devout heterosexual.

[@goldenharborstudios7180]

Women I mean, I couldn't give a crap about men

[@aishavaldez5307]

Love this comment!

[@bendavis6722]

my father was raised during the great depredation he enjoyed such movies as Shirley Temple Don knots plus trail of the lonesome pine plus John Wayne movies plus the Andy Griffith Show plus little house on the prairie series plus movies plus the Beverly hills Billy's the three stooges plus I watched reruns of Betty Boop way back when when I use to play mafia 1 and 2 I'm into classic cars I saw an easter egg in mafia 2 near one of gas stations don't know if it's Maryland Maro on the billboard sign near little Italy .

[@dpf5939]

I loved the early animated cartoons. I know they were painstakingly made but they looked almost humanlike at times. One Betty Boop short that stands out is called Crazy Town from 1932 I believe. It was a really trippy short but she sang a song that went, Foolish facts foolish facts foolish things and silly acts. The animation made her look almost human like the way she moved. The animation of the 30s and 40s was the best, I my eyes anyway.

[@reXdownhamOG]

I've been a big fan of Fleischer Studios for a very long time. In the 80s & 90s, when I worked in Miami, I drove by their building all of the time. This is an interesting look into their Betty Boop years.

[@thewatcher5271]

What A Good Video! Seems Like The Actress Who Did Her Voice The Most Mae Questel, Kind Of Looks Like Betty In Her Old Age. Thanks For Sharing.

[@RerunZone]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jakevendrotti1496]

Helen Kane had the hypocritical gall to sue over the theft of the Betty Boop character that SHE stole from "Baby" Esther Jones. Typical.

[@JiggsTheMonk02]

supposedly Dave Fleischer made some X rated Betty Boop cartoons where she’d be involved in a 3-way with Popeye and Olive Oyl,and he’d periodically show them at office parties for laughs

[@davidwesley2525]

I read about it in one of Betty Boop's websites. It was September 1938 , Max Fleischer showed a Betty Boop cartoon titled WELCOME TO MIAMI. The cartoon was first shown to the artists & animators of Fleischer Studios. To put it mildly , Betty Boop & Popeye the Sailor were making wild Whoopie. To this day no one knows what happened to the cartoon.🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@wynnschaible]

@@davidwesley2525 It's locked in a secret room with the Jeffrey Epstein cell tapes!

[@hisseingalmai5726]

@@davidwesley2525 They probably destroyed it to avoid backlash

[@finland4ever55]

All of Betty being considered hot is really gross when you think about how she has a baby face and talks like a kid, but shes actually 16. Look up Betty boop age

[@doggadean]

Love these RerunZone vids - so informative. Thank you.

[@theherrdark4834]

A local pbs and a couple other stations used to show these on the weekend/sundays during 10 am to 1 pm, this means the ones who could complain about it were not able to watch it.

[@silentotto5099]

When I was a small child back in the mid 60s, one of the local TV stations used to show these Fleischer cartoons as part of their kids programing. Compared to the Warner Bros cartoons or those made by MGM, which were the more normal Saturday morning fare and which were full color, they seemed archaic. But, their weirdness wasn't lost on me even then and I found them quite enjoyable.

[@armadillotoe]

The cartoons of the 50s also introduced children to classical music as well as jazz.

[@TickledFunnyBone]

My grandmother who passed away in 2010 loved betty boop.

[@paulwoida8249]

Back in 1996, they released an 8 volume set of Betty Boop cartoons on VHS cassettes. The Minnesota lottery had Betty scratch tickets in 2007.

[@leahsodyssey123]

I rediscovered them in the 90s when my then only daughter discovered them and we both enjoyed watching them. She even had a Barbie like Betty Boop doll with a big head, maybe that inspired the Bratz.

[@firedoc5]

In the late 60's when I was very young, I remember seeing Betty Boop, Felix the Cat, Popeye and other Fleischer cartoons. They are classics that have always stuck with me ever since. My baby sister's best friend was/is obsessed with Betty. She even looks like her in many ways.

[@virginiagobetz9084]

I loved the Betty Boop cartoon where she portrayed Cinderella.

[@DebSherr]

Betty Boop is bigger than ever! I watched the cartoons when I was little and Pudgy, her dog is super cute!

[@dahmc59]

Betty Boop is the most powerful cartoon character of all time she quite literally gave hell her cold shoulder and the devil her icy stare and completely sent all of Hell into a deep freeze even Thanos could not do that with The Infinity Gauntlet

[@antonydrossos5719]

5:30 Every amateur & professional cartoonists' eyes just widened here!

[@davidwesley2525]

Betty's Not Bad , She was Drawn That Way. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘

[@jb888888888]

In 1985's _The Romance of Betty Boop_ Betty is voiced by Desiree Goyette.

[@gingerroberts7936]

Nermal from "Garfield And Friends"

[@themasterjinn]

A true icon. I love the model sheets presented here, thank you.

[@fredradatz9575]

I got a Betty tattoo before going to Nam in 1966

[@kidcthulhufortney1320]

Pre-code Betty is such a delight. Those cartoons are so surreal and fun without being sanitized to the point of boredom.

[@bjs301]

They ran her cartoons on Saturday mornings in the late '50s and early '60s. Of course I was more into "modern" cartoons, like Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound.

[@matrox]

Yeh...I watched all those. Remember Herman the mouse and Mighty Mouse cartoons?

[@oh8wingman]

When I was in elementary school back in the 50's they used to show Betty Boop cartoons along with Popeye and assorted others every day for 1/2 hour at lunch time. This was followed by 1/2 an hour of the Three Stooges immediately after school.

[@organgrinder52]

Someone has previously commented that they should release the whole collection of Betty Boop cartoons on DVD. I thoroughly agree, as they had been release back in the 1980's or 90's on Laser Disc. Approximately two albums worth! Betty BIoop is iconic, she is just as popular today, as she first appeared as a dog-like character with long floppy ears (which in later catoons became human ears with small hoop earings). We all must remember, many of the cartoons of that era were aimed at adult audiences, thus the very mature themes that pervade them. Even the Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes, you can see it in the early Bugs Bunny cartoons, his wise cracks and double entendre's were meant for adults. As a child even I didn't understand some of the jokes. Back then Betty Boop was the acme of sexy, long before Jessica Rabbit was ever dreamt up! It's a true shame that the cartoon series 'Drawn Together!' was banned after only one season, even the poster that appeared in New York Subway Trains were banned and removed!

[@tricivenola8164]

I am from the LSD generation, been watching Betty Boop cartoons my whole life, and didn't know some of the stuff in your video, so thanks. The Fleischer cartoons are what we associated with acid trips: total stream-of-consciousness imagery with heavy sexual and cultural content. They are absolutely adult. I mean, skeletons turning black? Ghosts in electric chairs? An undulating walrus? Intelligent surrealism! Friends raised their kids on Max Fleischer only, no Disney. I'm delighted to see this stuff so huge now, deservedly so.

[@peterhandras1480]

I love Betty boop with all my heart

[@angelacarleton9575]

I always loved Betty Boop and love to hear her sing and watch some of her old cartoons too

[@LordJeZusthX]

*I Post!! I Get => ReTurned ERRor

[@richardreinertson1335]

I have loved Betty Boop cartoons since I was a kid in the late 50s and early 60s. Her uber-cuteness and blatant sexuality combined with the bizarre, surreal storylines were genius. Too bad the code killed her...thank God she re-emerged. Betty forever!

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

I agree what a hot babe I love Betty eternally

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

I agree what a hot babe I love Betty eternally

[@bradlundell3449]

I was born in 1953 and Betty Boop was a staple on several local television kid cartoon shows in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul in the 1950s and 1960s. Loved them. I picked up some VHS and DVDs of her cartoons and played them a lot for my kids and they turned out okay. They especially loved Betty's adventures with Grampy. Love the cartoons that featured Cab Calloway's "Old Man of the Mountain" and "Minnie the Moocher." Great stuff. Absolutely inventive. Fleischer's were clearly on overdrive dreaming this stuff up.

[@mistresskixen6142]

So basically Censorship Killed Betty's career back then. So sad big time sad.

[@istp1967]

She was just an absolute sweetheart 🤩😍😉👍👍👍

[@tonyfrancesco3701]

Betty gave me an obsession for flappers , I was never the same . I especially love the surreal acid like reality created . The true perverts are the censors who projected their own perverted desires

[@michaelmumford6351]

YOU SAID IT!

[@victorjohnson7512]

The lady who voiced Betty Boop, also did Olive Oil in the Popeye toons.

[@TuckTucker-so5gv]

I love Betty Boop !

[@RayPointerChannel]

HI, Rich! This is a thoughtful post. There are a few areas needing some corrections, however. First, DIZZY DISHES, the premier of the character that became Betty Boop was the eight Talkartoon. While Betty was supposedly a caricature of Helen Kane, and the voice a deliberate impersonation, I am not sure of the source that supports that Betty was patterned after Clara Bow at the direction of Max Fleischer. The stories coming from both Grim Natwick and Dave Fleischer base this on Sheet Music with Helen Kane's picture as a reference. The song LOVIN" used in the cartoons was recorded by Helen Kane and also featured in her first movie, ROUND HEELS (1929). It was recorded for the cartoon by an imitator, Margie Hines. However, Helen Kane did take her look from Clara Bow. And while Helen Kane claimed that Betty's hair style was based on hers, anyone with normal vision can see this is not so since Betty's hair is tight to her head, and her face framed by eight Spit Curls. Helen Kane did not wear her hair that way. And while it has been reported that ANY RAGS was the transitional cartoon, taking Betty from the dog design to totally human, the actually happened in MASK-A-RAID, which came before. Mae Questel, the most famous voice for Betty Boop stopped doing the voice in 1938. She was replaced by Margie Hines, who also took over Mae's character of Olive Oyl until 1944. The affects of The Breen Code of 1934 were seen after LITTLE PAL, which was the last Betty was seen in her short costume. After that she was fully clothed. It might be noted that BETTY BOOP'S TRIAL contains perhaps a statement to the forced censorship since we see for one last time what was under the short skirt with a full and smooth turn around showing off her little panties. That was never seen before, nor after. There was an attempt to create a new character relevant to the Swing Music Era in SALLY SWING. That cartoon was aimed as a pilot to a series in the same way that Popeye went to series. But this pilot failed, largely due to an uninteresting character design and equally unremarkable voice. While a teenage Rose Marie was hired as the voice for this new character, she did not portray enough personality on the soundtrack to gain attention. Interestingly, there were plans to make this series as announced in FILM DAILY in 1940, but it was cancelled by Dave Fleischer in favor of the STONE AGE series, which was a precursor to THE FLINTSTONES. STONE AGE was not good and is a largely forgotten series in the Fleischer history. In conclusion, I think all would agree that Betty Boop should have ceased in 1934 not just because of the censorship, but because the ear she represented had passed.

[@jerrygillespie1214]

I also liked the later BB cartoons for the 3 d effect. This was emphasized in the House Cleaning Blues cartoon of 1937

[@rob57ert]

I enjoyed Betty, and I also enjoyed your gift. Thank you very much.

[@possessedpicklejar4762]

Y’know, I always thought these 1930’s cartoons are kinda like anime sometimes, (more so the Popeyes ones,) but the fact that she’s sixteen wasn’t something I was expecting.

[@caseysmith544]

Yeah, I forget this until somebody does some presentation as to why they did have to tone down and censor old after 1934 Betty Boop due to the Hays code or something about Betty Boop and her entire changes over the span of the 90+ years she has been around mentions the pre Hays code with Betty Boop. Betty Boop as a modern Adult Cartoon with Betty Boop as an adult character if not going too far but in similar style to Betty Boop pre 1934, again adult character but just a tick further would do very well in this day and age, provided it did not get cut due to its unpopularity as a TV/Streaming show. You could do the two 7--10 minute episodes for TV like kids shows or do a 10 to 15 minute episode each if streaming it on TV for this day and age for the cartoon. I know that a show on USA Comedy Central had a Betty Boop like character in the Drawn Together TV show most being based off characters from TV shows or dead classic Cartoons with (looking up her name) Toot Braunstein. Drawn Together however during early Season 3 got too adult for most to keep watching including me then in early season 4 became too adult for TV it got yanked off the air by the FCC. This is saying something for TV when Shows like the Squidbillies or Metalapocalypse from Adult Swim was on the air at same time with just as bad a show if not worse in Squidbillies caset I have never watched Squidbillies but have only seen clips used for Commercials on Adult Swim that make Squidbillies seem like a worse show then Drawn Together.

[@T-Hogie]

I was born in 1949 and though I missed her original cartoons I did enjoy them in re-runs in the 50s and 60s. She was a cutie.

[@varanid9]

The first 2 Weissmuller Tarzan films, "Tarzan the Ape Man" and "Tarzan and his Mate" were pretty kick-ass but, after the Hayes Code was passed, they had to cut out some of the more brutal violence and put more clothes on Jane for subsequent installments. Also the reason most of the original "King Kong" editions viewed are the edited one.

[@brittakriep2938]

You will be surprised, when you watch german 1940 movie ,Der Postmeister' or german 1943 movie ,Münchhausen'. No Hayes Code, but topless women.

[@varanid9]

@@brittakriep2938 I remember German TV and ad posters in malls were much less.....prudish, than here in USA when I was sent there back in fall of '79.

[@brittakriep2938]

@@varanid9 : I am Brittas boyfriend, only co -using her computer for You Tube. Was born in 1965. Yes, in 1970s german TV show Musikladen showed sexy Gogos, Comedy Show Klimbim, and, when i was 16, the ,young people summer love" comedies in cinema, topless women in ,FA' showergel comercials...., an also in Germany long bygone era. The ,moralist' switch came in late 90s. Also ,nudist bathing' ( known as FKK, much funnier than KKK) is in decline. Also in a lot of spa (??) buildings/ Thermalbad, there are some nudist parts, mostly the socalled ,Sauna' part. In last may be two years it started, that some of this Spa/ Thermalbad buildings restrict being nude, where it was for decades common. This phenomeon is here and there, but i think, also in this context, times become lesser liberal. And , few decades ago impossibe, even art museums start to be strange, when there is a centuries old painting of a nude woman. As US citizen, you perhaps know such things for years, but here? I must use Queen Elisabeth ll ' s famous words , she said a number of years ago: I am not amused!

[@lennyking1899]

Yeah , Jane was really skinny-dipping !

[@brittakriep2938]

@@lennyking1899 : As i noted, i am german in my mid 50s. In early 1950s ( 51/52?) a german movie was produced, for two or three seconds, you can see a painter and a nude woman, for current standarts : Nothing. A number of years ago, i somewhere saw a picture, assumingly from wwll. A soldier with Stahlhelm and a long baton standing before civilians. But not a wwll picture, a Westgerman riotpoliceman in front of a cinema, which showed the noted movie.

[@terrancenorris9992]

All of her feature cartoons were cute and entertaining and always will be an icon in animation...

[@bonnieharris8112]

I knew a lady who really liked Betty Boop, but she suddenly got a bad case of consciousness and religion, so she got rid of most of her collection. I couldn't figure out why she felt Betty Boop was such a bad influence. Just a cute cartoon.

[@gordonbartlett1921]

Religion does that to people. That's one reason we're better off without it.

[@nightlightabcd]

Religion takes over peoples minds and turn then into slaves! They are not in the light but in the darkness! I know, I used to be one, but I was saved!

[@travelertime4382]

@@gordonbartlett1921 After jokingly inviting me to church with them to see which of the two in town I'd pick, I suggested that religion is like a buffet or pot luck dinner and I'll take just best bits, but just a little from each offering, and fill my plate that way.

[@sophiaglass2000]

@@travelertime4382 There's a term for that, I've heard thrown around. "Cafeteria Catholics." Edit: I am not religious, and this is just an example I've heard.

[@tiffanyfree5135]

Oh there's definitely a reason. When you know you know and can't unknow.

[@brianfretwell3886]

The worst thing was "colorizing" them by sending them to be retraced and inked loosing (not using computers) a lot of the detail for re-release. I love the B&W orignals.

[@jasonblalock4429]

So Betty Boop wasn't out of work "since Toons went to color," but because she was censored into oblivion. Sad.

[@philkovacs6396]

Loved her as a kid. As an adult I saw her cartoon Saint James Infirmary at the Filmore East between shows and was blown away by it. I've been hooked since.

[@charlesfason2674]

It's really stupid for a few to have the power to do away with a cartoon when many loved her.

[@thewenik6876]

Betty Boop cartoons, the early ones, were such good shows. She was toned down, though. Thanks.

[@kevinr.3542]

Early Fleischer cartoons are bizarre and awesome. I love "I Heard", and "Mysterious Mose" but "Swing you sinners" and "Bimbos Initiation" are my favorite. They need to release all the early Talkertoons on DVD. Everything they did was awesome. I have all the Popeyes they put out and most of the Betty Boops. Are they all available on DVD? Seems like the Popeye DVDs only go as far as the 40s-50s era and as for Betty Boop, it seems every release has the same 20 cartoons despite there being many more.

[@HooDatDonDar]

Fun fact: “ I Heard” is a song about a rumor of the spread of venereal disease (VD). Read the lyrics.

[@juanitahuisentruit1989]

I have been a Betty Fan since I was a little girl . I first saw a Betty Boop cartoon at about age 5 in early sixties. Started collecting Betty Items in the early eighties. My favorite all time character