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Betty Boop filmstrip
July 23, 2010 12:05 am
Here’s a curio: a 1930s vintage toy projector slide show, featuring Max Fleischer’s Betty Boop, Koko and Bimbo in a new adventure in the “real world”. If you ever wanted to see Bimbo naked… here’s your chance! (Thanks, Milton Knight)
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I have one of these – a different one – part of which I reproduced in our Betty Boop special edition of Animato, the animation magazine I once co-owned and edited. I’ll scan it and put it up on my site.
I actually found the projector for it at a flea market in Brimfield, Mass., but it was way too rich for my meager income!
Thought it was going to be a “Tijuana Funny” by that showering panel!
Interesting that they made the characters the same size as “real” people. Betty seems to be about 5′6″ with a creepily giant head. I’ve had to mix Betty Boop, Bugs, Daffy and others with photos of famous people and it worked best for us when I made her about 4′6″ tall. We never put Elmer Fudd next to a real human. ;-)
Would love to know a little bit more about this. Strange mix of Fleischer and some other unrelated style.
The “realistic” characters look like the ones printed on old New Year’s Eve noisemakers!
Ol’ “Johnnie Jones from Brooklyn” seems to be dredging up a past event that Koko would rather forget.
What was happening here, physically, with the film? Were there two pictures – maybe one above the other – that the projecter switched between? Or did you just see picture A, then picture B, and go on to the next pair? Or what?