
Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
Director: Dave Fleischer
Actors: Cab Calloway, Mae Questel, Max Fleischer

The Big Bang
In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves.The Russians decide to liquidate…

My Freaky Family
On the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood – budding musician and magical being – just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very different family,…

King Lavra
A king hides an embarrassing secret – and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair.

The Concert
A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it’s actually a cover for their…

Zula Hula
Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy’s plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home… until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.

French Rarebit
While visiting Paris, Bugs Bunny wanders past the restaurants of Louie and Francois, rival chefs who fight to cook him until he promises to teach them the recipe for ‘Louisiana…

Chess-Nuts
An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others, with elements of bowling and…

Три богатыря и свет клином

The Birth of the Robot
This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted…

Barnyard Olympics
Mickey and his friends are staging a sort of olympics in a makeshift stadium on his farm. The main event is a sort of quadrathlon, with running, pole vaulting, rowing,…

