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Betty Boop 3 [VHS]

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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.

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"