12/8/2023 0 Comments Betty boop snow whiteTo the next Betty Boop cartoon: Betty Boop’s Birthday Party To the previous Betty Boop cartoon: Betty Boop’s Penthouse Watch ‘Snow-White’ yourself and tell me what you think: With this short the Fleischers reached the pinnacle of their pre-code cartoon style, before a combination of the Hays code and a tendency to imitate Walt Disney more toned down their unique vision. Being very, very unlike Disney’s later feature film, ‘Snow-White’ is an undisputed highlight of cartoon surrealism, matched by very few other cartoons (the other one which comes to mind is ‘ Porky in Wackyland‘ from 1938). There’s a lot going on in this mind-blowing cartoon, which is over before you know it. Later the mirror turns the witch into a dragon, which chases the trio, until Bimbo turns it inside out. But when the queen turns him into a ghost, Koko suddenly becomes able to morph into a gold chain and into a bottle, illustrating the lyrics of the song. James Infirmary Blues, one of Calloway’s classic hits, with Cab Calloway’s voice and movements. They drag her into the ‘mystery cave’, followed by the queen, who, using her magic mirror, has turned herself into a witch. In another weird string of events Betty Boop ends in an ice coffin at the dwarfs’ door. However, in a very strange string of events they disappear into the hole they’ve dug themselves, while the tree to which Betty is tied sets her free himself. The queen orders ‘off with her head’, demonstrating the action with her own fingers, and soon Koko and Bimbo (as two knights) prepare for the execution. But then Betty Boop enters the scene, making the knights fall apart and the queen’s head turn into a frying pan, symbolizing her angry jealousy. It starts classical enough with the queen consulting her magic mirror. The Fleischer’s ‘Snow-White’ has a winter setting. For the images may make no sense, they do flow into each other in a seamless way, with Betty Boop’s ride into an ice coffin as a particular highlight of absurd logic. This may be the cause of the short’s remarkable inner consistency. Indeed he’s the only animator credited on the title card. According to Leslie Cabarga (‘The Fleischer Story’, p.64) the film was animated by one man, Doc Crandall. The short is also the second of three cartoons featuring the unique voice of Cab Calloway, the others being ‘ Minnie the Moocher‘ (1932) and ‘ The Old Man of the Mountain‘ from five months later. And rightly so, because it brings the Fleischer’s unique brand of surrealism to the max, being simply stuffed with mesmerizing images, unexpected metamorphosis and stream-of-consciousness-like story flows. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.Of all Fleischer cartoons ‘Snow-White’ is probably the most famous. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
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