Betty Boop Snow White 1933

Golden Oldies Classic Old Cartoons Betty Boop: Snow White 1933 Betty Boop, cartoon, Humor Memorable rendition of "St James Infirmary" by Cab Calloway Snow-White is a film in the Betty Boop series from Max Fleischer&Fleischer Studios directed in 1933. Dave Fleischer was credited as director, although virtually all the animation was done by Roland Crandall. Crandall received the opportunity to make Snow-White on his own as a reward for his several years of devotion to the Fleischer studio, and the resulting film is considered both his masterwork and an important milestone of The Golden Age of American animation. Snow-White took Crandall six months to complete. Synopsis A magic mirror, with a face resembling Cab Calloway, proclaims Betty Boop to be "the fairest in the land", much to the anger of Queen (Snow White) in derivative works (who resembles Olive Oyl). The Queen orders her guards Bimbo (cartoon) and Koko the Clown to behead Betty. With tears in their eyes, they take Betty into the forest and prepare to execute her. Betty escapes into a frozen river, which encloses her in a coffin of ice. This block slips downhill to the home of the seven dwarfs, who carry the frozen Betty into an enchanted cave. Meanwhile, Koko falls down a hole and arrives at the same cave, where the evil Queen turns him into a grotesque creature as he sings the St. James Infirmary Blues. With her rivals disposed of, the Queen again asks the magic mirror who the fairest in the land is...