5 cartoons tagged Talkartoons
11 Mar 1932 00:08:00
The film opens in live action with Cab Calloway and his orchestra playing "St. James Infirmary". Then Betty Boop is at the dinner table with her strict old-world parents, who scold her for not eating her hasenpfeffer. Her father rants until his head turns into a phonograph.
26 Dec 1930 00:06:00
On a stormy night, Betty, still a dog-eared flapper at this stage, is woken in her bed by a shock. She gets up and creeps through the dark house looking for the cause, singing the popular song "Mysterious Mose" as she goes.
09 Aug 1930 00:06:00
At a busy nightclub restaurant, four flapper cats sing "Crazy Town". Bimbo, the Fleischers' dog star, is a waiter. A huge, hungry gorilla orders roast duck, and Bimbo runs to the kitchen and prepares it.
24 Sep 1930 00:08:00
Late at night, Bimbo tries to steal a chicken. After several attempts he grabs a hand, which belongs to a policeman. He tries to stroll away innocently, followed by the chicken and by the policeman. The chicken and her chicks escape, and Bimbo hides in a graveyard. It is haunted.
24 Jul 1931 00:06:30
Over the credits, a chorus of hooded fraternity brothers boasts about how easily they will initiate Bimbo. Bimbo strolls down the street whistling "Go In and Out the Window" and drops through an open manhole; a figure who looks very like Mickey Mouse slams the lid shut behind him.
