Identifying Redrawn Betty Boop cartoons

[dandu]

I only have a handful of these, so I am wondering if there is more
or are these it?

"Henry"
"Another Little King"
"No No A Thousand Times No!"
"Making Stars"
"Is My Palm Read?"

[detroittvguy]

I used to have color prints of Betty Boop's Penthouse and Minnie The Moocher.

[Studio Toledo]

I once saw "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" that way, though it was hard to watch it without Armstrong's bits since that went out the window. Spotted one from the post-1934 years that was on one of Replublic's (or NTA's) VHS releases stuck in with the color Fleischer/Famous cartoons.

[dandu]

The ones I have except for Henry, are pretty well done compared to the Looney Tunes done 2 years before!!

[Bobby Bickert]

Either Republic or NTA released entire tapes of the redrawn versions in the 1980's; I rented one in '86 or '87. I cant remember the entire contents, but it did include:

Snow White
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Betty Boop for President
Betty in Blunderland
Is My Palm Red?
Mask-A-Raid
Swing School


Also, AMC used to air a redrawn "Betty Boop's Halloween Party" with the color turned off.


I would guess that they had anything with Betty in it redrawn since one of "her" Screen Songs, "Romantic Melodies", was represented on the Definitive Collection by a redrawn with the color turned off, which was probably only half the length of the original!

[FleischerFan]

Yes, there were a whole slew of the Bettys that were redrawn and colorized. Republic Home Video did have them out on several VHS tapes.

I have also seen B&W prints of these "colorized" cartoons (the ultimate irony) on different public domain tapes & DVDs.

I gave those tapes away long ago, so I do not have a comprehensive list of the titles they included. Sorry.

[dandu]

Did they look at all better than the Looney Tunes on your end?
Because I thought that they even looked better than those redrawn Popeyes!!!

[absolutpaul]

The colors were more "psychedelic" I thought. Plus, what made them look bad was that Betty Boop was a difficult character to draw and animate. She was obviously difficult to trace, too. Most of her animation was done on "ones", and she looks sloppy moving on "twos", with kindergarden level- inking on her supposedly perfect face.

[FleischerFan]

Did they look better?


No.

[dandu]

What are you thoughts on "Is My Palm Read?", I think it is very well redrawn, except that Betty has a rare species of purple cats and squirrels, there are scenes missing, but i dont think it is the colorizer's fault, I think it is more of because the only print available at the time was the heavilly edited one!

[dandu]

I noticed one scene that was missing because it was difficult to animate, at the fortune telling building when the lights flash, they flash each time more vigorous, whereas the colorized version had the lights flash twice then it cuts to the next scene.