Betty boop in color2/11/2024 Her magical dress transformation has her rags slowly disappear, revealing a modest long undergarment, which promptly transforms into skimpy, lacy lingerie before the ballgown forms over it. Betty Boop Color Animation Cel, Original Art A color remake of a classic Betty Boop cartoon resulted in producing this nice stand-alone image of Betty. And while this Hays Code-era version of Betty is more demure and less of a sex symbol than in her notorious pre-Code cartoons, there's still a hint of the Fleischers' classic risqué humor. During the slipper-fitting, one Stepsister's big toe grows a face to glare at her as she tries to cram it in. (A moment that's either charming or creepy, depending on your viewpoint.) At the ball, Cupid wallops the stuffy Prince with a mallet when he sees Betty/Cinderella, sending him sliding headfirst down the staircase to greet her, and a caricature of popular crooner Rudy Vallée appears to sing the theme song. Animals and inanimate objects talk and sing here and there: even the pumpkin, just before being turned into a coach, grows a jack o'lantern face and sings about how glad he is not to be carved up for a pie. But the cartoon still finds room for some irreverent jokes, modern references and classic surreal Fleischer gags. (Sometimes it even simplifies it – for example, there's no Stepmother in sight, only the two Stepsisters.) Dialogue is sparing, with most of the story sung rather than spoken, and the musical style is gentle and sweet, with the waltz-time theme song, "I'm Just A Poor Cinderella" (a guaranteed ear-worm) composed in the style of an old romantic parlor ballad. It faithfully retells the familiar tale in simple, broad strokes. In no way a definitive Cinderella, but endearing. ![]() Technical innovations aside, this is an endearing cartoon short. Cinderella's ride in her coach to the ball and her whirling with the Prince on the ballroom floor are especially striking examples of this technology. This cartoon also makes good use of the stereoptical camera, Fleischer's equivalent of Disney's multiplane camera designed to give the animation more depth: some of the aforementioned lavish backgrounds were actual, physical 3D models, rotated behind the animation cells. Born in the 30s, Betty Boop made her first appearance in cartoons with a walk-on role playing the dog-like love interest to Fleischer Studios Bimbo character. To show off the color to the fullest, even Betty/Cinderella's hair is colored red instead of its usual black. But even with this limited palette, they create a charming little fairy-tale world with what another reviewer has described as a stained glass-like quality, and with lavishly detailed, beautiful storybook backgrounds, even though most of the characters are drawn in Fleischer's usual bouncy, cartoony and slightly grotesque style. Betty may, on the other hand in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, just be drawn in ink, which is made up of black pen and white paper.Because Disney had an exclusive contract with Technicolor at the time, though, the Fleischers used Cinecolor instead: a two-strip process which produced only two colors, red and blue-green. ![]() In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Betty says she doesn't get much work since cartoons are now in color, claiming to be colorless. Betty solely has black hair in the main reboots, proving this. All they will discuss is the history of the color process of Poor Cinderella, this is possibly because they too are unaware of Betty's true colorized origins. The license owners today won't divulge that Betty ever had red hair. ![]() Betty having red hair is not acknowledged by Betty's new model sheets by King Features or the descendants of the original Fleischer Studios, for all current endeavors, Betty's hair is just jet-black. The roots of Betty's red hair are unknown to those who are not fans of the "original" Betty Boop series or who do not know about the origin in great detail. With her red hair, Betty resembles the "It" girl Clara Bow, who served as partial inspiration for the development of Betty. In Poor Cinderella, Betty's hair was changed red to take advantage of the 3-strip Technicolor colors.
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