Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
| Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle | |
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| Betty Boop series | |
 Betty Boop |
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| Directed by | Dave Fleischer Shamus Culhane (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer (producer) |
| Voices by | Mae Questel |
| Music by | The Royal Samoans |
| Animation by | Shamus Culhane (uncredited) Seymour Kneitel Bernard Wolf |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 23, 1932 |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 8 mins |
| Language | English |
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle is a 1932 Fleischer Studios Betty Boop animated short, directed by Dave Fleischer. It is now public domain.
[edit] Plot
After a short live action performance by the Royal Samoans, Bimbo appears on screen playing a ukelele while riding in a motorboat. The motorboat goes faster and faster, until it crashes into a tropical island. Bimbo flies into the air and lands in another boat, this one containing a topless (except for a strategically placed lei) and dark-skinned Betty Boop.
Bimbo and Betty, after nearly falling down a waterfall, are flung from the boat into a clearing surrounded by hostile trees, who torment the two. A group of savages appears, but Bimbo disguises himself by painting his face and sticking a bone in his hair. Bimbo is treated as an honored guest, and to a performance of Betty dancing the hula. A sudden rainstorm washes off Bimbo's disguise, and he and Betty make a hasty escape from the angry savages. After another rapid boat ride, Bimbo and Betty ride up the Mississippi River, where they attempt to kiss in private behind an umbrella (with a convenient hole).
The hula performance by Betty Boop was a visual high point of this episode. Betty's hula dance appears to be closely modeled on the hula dancer that appeared in the opening live action sequence (though the dancer was not "topless" as Betty is). This is one of the more apparent examples of the rotoscope technique which the Fleisher Studio used for realistic animation. The hula sequence was later reused for Betty's cameo in 1933's Popeye the Sailor and in 1934's Betty Boop's Rise to Fame.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
Media related to Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle at Wikimedia Commons
- Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle at the Big Cartoon Database
- Full Cartoon on Cinemaniacal, streaming and downloadable.
- Downloadable cartoon at archive.org (public domain, MPEG4, 9.6MB)
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