Question about Betty Boop in Blunderland

[J. A. Boschen]

A while ago a friend of mine let me borrow, some tapes that he had of cartoons that he recorded off of cartoon Network, it was a special that had film critics such as Leonard Maltin talking about cartoons. One of the cartoons that was on here was Betty Boop in Blunderland, and I remember that this cartoon was complete with Paramount logos and everything. Anybody else remeber this, and possibly have any images of the Betty Boop Paramount logo that they can post?

[Ray Pointer]

The only BETTY BOOP cartoon that I'm familiar with that has the complete Paramount trademark image is POPEYE THE SAILOR in some prints floating around. What you refer to is the stage procenium compostion with the mountain behind the columns, and the titles wiping on or swinging up into place.
These show the Paramount copyright notice. But the Paramount signature letters and crest of stars is missing in all BETTY BOOP cartoons of this era 1933-1934 that have been in general circulation. That is not to say that a few with the complete beginning may not have slipped through to survive. Let's see what does surface.

[J. A. Boschen]

I will have to keep an eye out for that particular popey cartoon then, since I have been dying to find a betty Boop cartoon with the column titles/stage titles that still have the original paramount logo (since I am an original title fanatic for all classic cartoons)

[Ray Pointer]

I will have to keep an eye out for that particular popey cartoon then, since I have been dying to find a betty Boop cartoon with the column titles/stage titles that still have the original paramount logo (since I am an original title fanatic for all classic cartoons)

I, probably more than anyone have held that romantic attachment to wanting to see the films with the opening footage as they were originally seen. But for the most part, this is a nearly impossible dream. Unless an older print survives, or unless someone digially re-inserts the Paramount trade mark footage taken from the POPEYE source or recreates it, you may never see it again.:(

Those BETTY BOOP cartoons with the Parmount trademark footage have had them inserted from footage taken from live action films. A few in the UCLA archives have the original PARAMOUNT art as used in the original release because of the deposit of original or duplicate 35mm negative materials. This is of particular interest relating to the SCREEN SONGS, which incorporated a superimposition of the Paramount trademark over the closing of a live performer at the end. To date, only one, AIN'T SHE SWEET with Lillian Roth esists in it's entirety.

When the cartoons were sold to television, the conditions for televising and syndication were to remove the Paramount trademark and references. A few slipped through. And in the case of the COLOR CLASSICS, many of them exist in source material (screening prints or negatives) retaining the Paramount trademark and not the U.M. & M. TV Corp. or NTA lead ins and closings. The Fleischer Studios' first three color Technicolor cartoon, SOMEWHERE IN DREAMLAND uses a beautiful Paramount trademark with multicolored cotton-like clouds passing through. Later color trademark footage used more conventional animation techniques, as in the SUPERMAN cartoons using painted cloud "impressions" moved on pan cels.