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Betty Boop (Two-Disc Collector's Edition + Free Betty Boop Key Chain)

This set is perhaps the best way to get most of the public domain Betty Boop cartoons. The prints and transfers are nicer than most PD collections, and unlike the Good Times DVD's, they don't add extra sound effects to the films. While the famous films featuring Cab Calloway aren't included in this collection, there are still a few of the classic era Betty Boop cartoons with Bimbo and Koko the Clown, like "Is My Palm Read?" and "Betty Boop's Kerchoo". Also included is Betty's color debut, "Poor Cinderella" (in which Betty is a redhead!) Most of the films here are from the post-code era, though, featuring Pudgy and Grampy. At their best, these later shorts are charming and fun to watch. One shot films featured characters from then-popular comic strips, such as Little Jimmy, the Little King and "Henry, the Funniest Living American", as well as a strange Fleisher original, Wiffle Piffle, in "The Hot Air Salesman". Overall, this is a fun collection showcasing one of the most iconic 1930's cartoon characters. The keychain is nice too, made of a high-quality rubber-like material. -- Debbie Anne

Release Date: 04/03/2007

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150 Cartoon Classics

Betty Boop, Woody Woodpecker, Casper the Ghost - WOW! 150 Cartoon Classics DVD Set. PRICED LOW! Hours of classic animation! Here's the ultimate collection of 150 Classic Cartoons. A laugh a minute featuring all-time favorite characters and fun-filled antics from the Golden Age of animation. Starring Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, The Three Stooges, Casper, Betty Boop and more on 4 Discs. Set weighs 6 ozs. Nab your kid-friendly Set now!

For the price you really can't complain too much. There are about 2/3 of the set that I rate as good cartoons that I'd watch again. Obviously some real clunkers, like THREE STOOGES, the HOFFNUNG & the MR PIPER ones which don't appeal to me liking the bizarre 1930s ones, fortunately there are lots of those on here! Many are typical public domain quality, the worst one is the wonderful COBWEB HOTEL Fleisher Toon which is rough at the start. Some have extra noise too from worn films. 5 stars for 2/3 being good toons & the price.

There are loads of Popeye (23 of them, almost all the post Fleischer ones), just one Casper & Woody Woodpecker, which may disappoint, but the Woody one is a great early 40s one.

BEWARE buying this set if you own the 100 Cartoon collection (with the dog pen drawing on the front) and the 101 Set (from Australia) as these duplicate most of this set. The 101 set copies 75% of this set in the same order!
-- choccycat "le chat avec chocolat" (london, england)

Here's the full track listing on 4x DVDs...

1 Tuba Tooter
2 Plane Dumb
3 Redskin Blues
4 Jolly Fish
5 Barnyard Bunk
6 Spanish Twist
7 Piano Tooners
8 Pencil Mania
9 Mendelssohn's Spring Song
10 In The Museum
11 Snow Man
12 Goofy Goat Antics
13 Let's Sing With Popeye
14 Circus Capers
15 Sultan Pepper
16 Red Riding Hood
17 Nursery Scandal
18 Boy Meets Dog
19 Westward Whoa
20 Molly Moo Cow Indians
21 Talking Magpies
22 Jerky Turkey
23 Doggone Tired
24 Trolley Ahoy
25 Toonerville Picnic
26 Inki and Mynah Bird
27 Fresh Vegetable Mystery
28 Have You Got Any Castles?
29 Hamateur Night
30 Tale Of Two Kitties
31 Case Of Missing Hare
32 Enchanted Square
33 Private Eye Popeye
34 Porky's Midnight Matinee
35 Tarts and Flowers
36 Flycycle Built For Two
37 Wolf wolf!
38 Bargain Counter Attack

1 Little Hawk
2 Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra
3 Uncle Tom and Little Eva
4 Hoffnung Vacuum Cleaner
5 April Maze
6 Hoffnung Music Academy
7 Hoffnung's Professor Yaya's Memoirs
8 Along Came Duck
9 Story Of Ali Baba
10 Magic Horn
11 Brave Molly
12 Hasty and Princess
13 Kindhearted Girl
14 Three Sisters
15 Proud Princess
16 Sunshine Makers
17 You Can't Shoe Horsefly
18 It's Greek Life
19 Picnic Panic
20 Cupid Gets His Man
21 Molly Moo Cow Robinson Crusoe
22 Scotty Finds Home
23 ParroTVille Post Office
24 Spinning Mice
25 ParroTVille Old Folks
26 Les Escargots
27 Henpecked Rooster
28 Mutt In A Rut
29 Story Of Time
30 Notes To You
31 Mechanical Monsters
32 Fresh Hare
33 There's Good Boos Tonight
34 All's Well
35 Flat Heads
36 Shuteye Popeye
37 Cheese Burglar
38 Stupidstitious Cat

1 Time For Love
2 Little Stranger
3 Hawaiian Birds
4 Peeping Penguins
5 Car-tune Portrait
6 Play Safe
7 All's Fair At Fair (1938)
8 Ants In Plants
9 Cobweb Hotel
10 Day At Zoo
11 Jungle Jitters
12 Nearlyweds
13 Fire Cheese
14 My Friend Monkey
15 On With New
16 Pudgy Takes Bow-wow
17 Rhythm On Reservation
18 Hairbrained Barbers
19 Sock-a-bye Kitty
20 Comin' Round Mountain
21 Crazytown
22 Golden State
23 Winter Draws On
24 Shortnin' Bread
25 Once Upon Time
26 Lost Dream
27 Cad and Caddy
28 Quack-a-doodle-doo
29 Marriage Wows
30 Hector's Hectic Life
31 Falling Hare
32 Gabby Goes Fishing
33 Goofy Goofy Gander
34 I Don't SCare
35 Noisy Silent Movie
36 Littlest Martian
37 Naughty But Mice
38 Early Worm Gets Bird

1 Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
2 Ancient Fistory
3 Taxi-turvey
4 Popeye For President
5 Assault and Flattery
6 Fright To Finish
7 Bride and Gloom
8 Gopher Spinach
9 Customers Wanted
10 Out To Punch
11 Popeye Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
12 Spree Lunch
13 Greek Mirthology
14 Parlez Vous Woo
15 Haul In One
16 Insect To Injury
17 Cookin' With Gags
18 Floor Flusher
19 Little Brown Jug
20 Corny Concerto
21 Wabbit Who Came To Supper
22 Timid Toreador
23 Impatient Patient
24 Casper Friendly Ghost
25 Goose That Laid Golden Egg
26 Pantry Panic
27 Electric Earthquake
28 Pigs In Polka
29 Yankee Doodle Daffy
30 Wacky Wabbit
31 Get That Snack Shack Off Track
32 Boo Moon
33 Patriotic Popeye
34 Big Bad Sindbad
35 Eleventh Hour
36 Queen Of Hearts

Release Date: 02/07/2006

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Cartoon Festival 76 Episode Pack

Release Date: 04/10/2007

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The Ultimate Betty Boop Collection

"Best of Betty Boop & 12 Classic Cartoons"
1. Betty Boop's Ker-choo (1/6/1933)
2. Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1/27/1933)
3. Is My Palm Read (2/17/1933)
4. Betty In Blunderland (4/6/1934)
5. Betty Boop's Rise To Fame (5/18/1934)
6. Poor Cinderella (8/1/1934)
7. Baby Be Good (1/18/1935)
8. Betty Boop And Grampy (8/16/1935)
9. Judge For A Day (9/20/1935)
10. Making Stars (10/18/1935)
11. Betty Boop With Henry (11/1/1935)
12. Not Now (2/1/1936)

Back cover text: Betty Boop-oop-a-dooped her way to the silver screen in the Max Fleischer short Dizzy Dishes on August 8th, 1930. Since then, she's been captivating audiences for over 70 years with her innocent start out as the bubbly bombshell that we know and love today. In fact, at the start of her career, BETTY WAS A DOG. Yes, you read that right-a dog! It was only after appearances in several Fleischer cartoons that she eventually shed her canine ears in 1932's Any Rags and assumed a human shape. And what a shape! With her AMPLE CURVES and trademark SULTRY SWAY, Betty characterized a sexuality common to the depression a paying audience. Oftentimes, the occasional breeze would be known to lift Betty's tiny dress or accidentally force her top off--much to the shock of viewers. And it wasn't just the audience that found itself mesmerized by Betty. Everything and everyone in the Fleischer cartoons fell for her. Lecherous ringmasters, boorish bosses, and a whole myriad of male cartoons attempted to get close to "The Boop." But as the years passed and the social climate changed, Betty's sexy look faded and gave way to a more toneddown, if not less exciting, appearance. But today, in no matter what form she comes, Betty is and will always be an ANIMATION CLASSIC. Experience the thrill and joy Betty brings to the screen with this special collection of her greatest moments (presented in chronological order) and prepare to join the millions who've fallen for her charms.

Release Date: 12/07/2004

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Betty Boop - The World's First Female Superhero

This is a collection of 10 Betty Boop shorts, all from the post Hays-Code era. The Hays-Code was the predecessor to the Motion Picture Association of America rating system (which wasn't adopted until 1968). The code was brought into being by complaints from moralists that Hollywood was corrupting the young (some things never change) with the glorification of violence, crime, sex, and drug abuse, especially in gangster films. They were also upset about presentations of homosexuality and interracial mixing. The code was also brought about because Hollywood feared the growing power of FDR's Washington. Without this form of self-censorship, FDR would almost have certainly signed legislation to control or censor Hollywood, if he didn't try to nationalize the industry altogether!

The code was established in 1930 and it began to be effectively enforced in all Hollywood studios by 1934. What that meant for Betty Boop was no more drug references, no more overt sexuality, no more singing with Cab Calloway (a black man), longer skirts, boring new characters (like Grampy and Pudgy), and generally less fun all around. Its no surprise then that all her best shorts were pre-code.

These 10 Hays-Code episodes aren't the racy classics that Dad would enjoy watching alone, but they are great to watch with your kids. They are all pretty entertaining, save the last two with Grampy. #8 is somewhat offensive in its depiction of Native Americans, but its Betty's final film and has a little bit of that jazziness that had been missing for years. Here are the episodes included in order:

1) Judge for a Day, 1935
2) Betty Boop and Little Jimmy, 1936
3) No! No! A Thousand Times No!, 1935
4) Betty Boop and the Little King, 1936
5) The Hot Air Salesman, 1937
6) Stop That Noise, 1935
7) Musical Mountaineers, 1939
8) Rhythm on the Reservation, 1939
9) A Song a Day, 1936
10) The Candid Candidate, 1937

For the serious Betty Boop fan, one should probably wait for the "Definitive Collection" to reach DVD, probably at the $80-$100 range for the complete collection. For those of us who aren't so enthralled by the idea of 13 hours of Betty Boop for $100, a "best of" collection in some 90 minutes would be an ideal preference. In the meantime you might as well pick this up... its an entertaining introduction to a 30s pop culture idol and its a veritable steal at this price. The image is remarkably good for a DVD of this price and the sound is probably as good as it was in the theatres back then.

Release Date: 02/24/2004

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The Best of Betty Boop: 12 Classic Cartoons

1. We Did It (4/1/1936)
2. A Song A Day (5/1/1936)
3. More Pep (6/1/1936)
4. You're Not Built That Way (7/1/1936)
5. Training Pigeons (9/1/1936)
6. Be Human (11/1/1936)
7. Whoops! I'm A Cowboy (2/1/1937)
8. The Hot Air Salesman (3/12/1937)
9. Pudgy Takes A Bow-Wow (4/1/1937)
10. On With The New (11/1/1938)
11. My Friend The Monkey (1/27/1939)
12. The Scared Crows (4/1/1939)
13. Rhythm On The Reservation (5/1/1939)

Release Date: 11/23/2004

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