Product Details

• Actors: Mae Questel, Bonnie Poe, William Pennell, Ann Little, Jack Mercer
• Directors: Dave Fleischer, Shamus Culhane
• Producers: Adolph Zukor, Max Fleischer
• Format: Animated, Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Republic Pictures
• VHS Release Date: October 1, 1996
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304173202
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,495 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre Betty at her best!, July 12, 2001

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Leealike "Leealike" (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Betty Boop 3 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

These cartoons have to be seen to be believed! Bimbo's Initiation, Is My Palm Red and Betty Boop M.D. are the weirdest things you'll see without breaking any laws.

What must have been in the air at the Fleischer Studios in the early Thirties is anyone's guess. Brilliant stuff that anyone from a casual fan to a student of animation has to see - not just amoung the classic cartoons but amoung the classic films of all time!

Also, the masters used for this series are beautiful, with the only downside being the lose of the Paramount logo on most of them. You will not find better quality B/W cartoons even from Disney.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surrealism and the boopster, June 10, 1999

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This review is from: Betty Boop 3 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An amazing collection of some of the more imaginative animation of all time. The Fleischers were the greatest innovators of their day, and stretched the bounds of reality far more than any other studio. As Max put it, "if it can happen in real life, it isn't animation.". His brother Dave put this theory into practice.

The first three volumes of this series are the pre-code toons, the others are a bit too cutesy for my tastes. Volume 3 belongs in everyone's collection, it contains 8 classics of surrealism, including "Bimbo's Inititaion"