Betty Boop The Essential Collection Volume 1 -Blu-ray-

Product Description Newly re-mastered in HD from 4K scans of the original negatives and finegrains. Regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen; she was a symbol of the Depression era and a reminder of the more carefree days of the Roaring Twenties. Her popularity was drawn larger from adult audiences and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many sexual and psychological elements. "Boop-Oop-A-Doop" The queen of the animated screen returns to allure and entice audiences all over again in this fantastic four-volume compilation featuring many of her greatest adventures. Volume One includes 12 animated short films available for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray(TM). All 12 shorts were produced by Max Fleischer and directed by his brother Dave Fleischer. Featuring the voices of Mae Questel, Bonnie Poe and Ann Little as Betty Boop. Also featuring guest voices of Cab Calloway, Jack Mercer, William Pennell and The Royal Samoans. This collection includes the cartoons CHESS NUTS (1932), BETTY BOOP, M.D. (1932), BETTY BOOP'S BAMBOO ISLE (1932), BETTY BOOP FOR PRESIDENT (1932), BETTY BOOP'S PENTHOUSE (1933), BETTY BOOP'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (1933), BETTY BOOP'S MAY PARTY (1933), BETTY BOOP'S HALLOWE'EN PARTY (1933), BETTY BOOP'S RISE TO FAME (1934), BETTY BOOP'S TRIAL (1934), BETTY BOOP'S LIFE GUARD (1934), and THE FOXY HUNTER (1937) Amazon.com When Betty Boop made her debut in "Dizzy Dishes" in 1930, she had something no other cartoon character did: a genuine female anatomy and believably feminine style of movement. In "Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle" (1932), she danced a hula wearing only a lei and a grass skirt. Her comic sex appeal attracted not only her regular costars Bimbo and Koko, but every male in the vicinity, down to the king on a chessboard. Walt Disney pushed his artists to greater realism and believability; Fleischer Studios took the "rubber house" animation of the 1920s to its logical conclusion: an elastic, metamorphic, often surreal style. The characters bend and stretch like so much Silly Putty; plants and inanimate objects grow limbs and faces to comment on the action. (A flower is so scandalized by Betty's hula, it buries its head in the sand, leaving its roots in the air.) In contrast to the lush Technicolor beauty of Disney's Silly Symphonies, the Betty Boop cartoons have an urban, black-and-white edgines