How To End A Cartoon

Boy, no one made better endings than the Fleischers. You could never predict them!




Gotta have some good butt slapping.




Hordes Of Betties and Butt Slaps

More Lewd Betty Advances

My, what's Bimbo so happy about?
It's Betty's figure 8 ass-dance!



In the clip, watch Bimbo throb to the beat here.
Boop's lip synch is pretty damn erotic too.
Especially when she says "Wanna be a member?"





Bimbo's Initiation Ass Dance

Erotic Cycles

Betty knows just how much Bimbo is turned on by cycles.
This is what I would consider not conservative animation. Grim isn't holding anything back. He's just doing what he thinks is naturally funny. He's not checking his rule book first.
You'd have a million people saying no to this kind of thing today - or even in the 50s.
Not just because it's dirty - but because it's too cartoony. It "doesn't make sense".
This arm wave is funny as hell, you better say no to it, quick!
And of course the rubber butt slap is the topper of it all.
The Fleischers had their own sort of "limited animation " techniques. They would animate a lot of cycles or bits of animation and repeat them a couple times. This could essentially cut their budgets in half. This is different than say, HB's limited animation of the late 50s - where they were trying to hide the animation. The Fleischers made the cycles themselves funny and worth looking at more than once.''


By the 50s animation was still professional, but outside of some commercials, was pretty conservative. "We don't do that sort of thing anymore".
I love this early purity.
To me, this is the essential part of animation- moving things funny.
Now you have to fight like Hell to get anyone to allow you to do what simply comes naturally to the medium.
Look what this is doing for Bimbo!
Don't you wish your gal/dog? would do some erotic cycles for you?



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Betty Never Looked So Hot - Mysterious Mose

To me, this is the cutest Betty Boop ever. It's animated by its designer, Grim Natwick.
These scenes are from "Mysterious Mose", a great early Fleischer cartoon.
The animation is early, before all the secondary animation principles were established and is done straight ahead through sheer talent and design. It's animated to the beats to a hot jazz track.
Great drawings, pretty cartoon girls animated to great music is my favorite art form. It's an unbeatable combination.
Each pose lands on a beat. I think it's a 12x beat if I remember correctly.
I love the imaginative lip synch. You gotta remember too, that they had only been animating mouths for a year or so! This was all new to everybody.



It's cool how Betty's part keeps moving from one side of her head to the other.



You can't beat Horseshoe Crab hands either.


Note the dog ears and nose!





I wouldn't wanna get caught on any of those fishhooks coming out of her head.





These are supremely stylish drawings - especially for 1930, when almost everyone else was drawing characters made of circles.








These would look great on t-shirts - whattaya think girls?




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