Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• DVD Release Date: December 27, 2005
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BF0CKW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,046 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BETTY BOOP - DVD Movie

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1.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate Junk and Disgraceful to the Original Animators, February 11, 2007

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Jon (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biography - Betty Boop: The Queen of Cartoons (DVD)

I found this dvd terribly overpriced, yet I finally bit the bullet and shelled out.

What a mistake - the narration is inane and misleading in terms of Betty's history (it is made to sound like "Snow White" was an effort by the studio to get Betty back on track and woo the movie-going public - it is in fact one of the earlier Jazz efforts when her skirt was still short) and very little of the narration or interviews provides insight into what made Betty popular in the first place: namely the risque, jazz, "acid" and spooky elements that make up the first few years of her series and appearances in 'Talkartoons'.

The man who should have been interviewed for this special (indeed, should have narrated it)was Leslie Cabarga, who wrote a wonderful book titled "The Fleischer Story" in the early 1970's - a remarkably well researched book, full of enthusiasm, love and respect for the material.

I suspect Richard Fleischer's (son of Max) inclusion in this special was incumbent on Mr.Cabarga's absence, as bickering factions of the Fleischer clan had previously chosen sides over whether to cooperate with Cabarga's research or not.

But the real slap in the face, which affects all viewers and not just those scholarly types, is that more than two thirds of the animation portrayed during this special are re-"black and whited" versions of colorised copies made in the 1980's of the original black and white cartoons.

Worse still, characters in motion are virtually re-drawn and animated at a lower frame rate, making the originally beautiful smooth animation now jerky and awkward - a disgrace to the work of the animators who put so much love and soul into these amazing cartoons, since the work here portrayed is supposed to be of a "historical" and "scholarly" bent.

I've never met a Fleischer fan who claimed that the later, "tame", long skirted, unfunny domestic Betty was an improvement, yet here we are presented with veteran animator Myron Waldman (may he rest in Peace) informing us that he always hated those peripheral elements in Betty's cartoons like the character Bimbo - who I think, along with Ko Ko, only aided Betty's appearances.

Pudgy vs Bimbo? No contest. Perhaps they might have found a Fleischer Studios animator whose opinion of the elements that made Betty's cartoons so popular in the first place was a little higher and not at odds with the lessons of history: namely, that turning Betty into Mrs.Cleaver is what spelled the series' demise, and not, as this special suggests, because her former Flapper looks was somehow out of style with late Thirties America.

Betty and the Fleischer studios animators who created her deserved better.

3.0 out of 5 stars Biography, December 22, 2011

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Jose Lopez "Jose Lopez" (Miami,Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biography - Betty Boop: The Queen of Cartoons (DVD)

I enjoyed it,I am not a fan but was with someone who is,she loves her and while although I did not like some of the comments i.e.,"The Far-Right" what far Right was there that Existed? It is common Knowledge/Fact that Prohibition was a Progressive phenomenon.Tammany Hall,Chicago Corruption,where was the so-called "Right"? until the post-war Was there such a Resurgence and thank Heavens there was.other than that the bio was informative.

5.0 out of 5 stars A WONDERFUL DVD, December 13, 2011

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LUISGONZALES - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Biography - Betty Boop: The Queen of Cartoons (DVD)

THIS IS A GREAT DVD FOR ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT BETTY BOOP.
I REALLY ENJOY THIS VERY MUCH AND LEARNED MANY THINGS ABOUT THIS CLASSIC CARTOON.
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