Betty Boop's Big Boss
{{short description|1933 film}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Betty Boop's Big Boss
| image =
| caption =
| director = Dave Fleischer
| story =
| animator = Bernard Wolf
David Tendlar
| starring = Little Ann Little{{Cite book |title=Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70 |last=Scott |first=Keith |publisher=BearManor Media |year=2022 |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |page=334}}
| music =
| producer = Max Fleischer
| studio = Fleischer Studios
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1933|06|02}}
| country = United States
| color_process = Black-and-white
| runtime = 7 minutes
| language = English
}}
Betty Boop's Big Boss is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/54/mode/2up |pages=54–56}} It is now in the public domain.
Plot
An anthropomorphic pig puts an ad up for an employment ("Girl Wanted--Top Floor--Female Preferred"), and then walks off with the ladder strolling behind him. Betty walks by and responds to the ad along with an enormous group of fellow applicants. When the interviewing manager asks Betty what she can do, Betty replies in song that she can't type or take dictation, but that she can provide other benefits. The businessman sends the other applicants away via a trap door, and hires Betty.
Betty is happy with her new job, but the boss soon makes unwanted advances toward his employee. Scared, Betty calls for help. The police arrive on the scene, making several futile attempts to enter the building. They finally whittle down the skyscraper by firing machine guns into it. Betty and her boss appear in silhouette behind the window shade, but when the shade is raised, the two are locked in an embrace. Betty exclaims "Fresh!" and pulls the shade back down for some privacy.
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0023797}}
- [https://archive.today/20130117203515/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/4378-Betty_Boops_Big_Boss.html Betty Boop's Big Boss at the Big Cartoon Database]
- [https://archive.org/details/bb_big_boss Downloadable cartoon at archive.org] (public domain, MPEG4, 7.5MB)
{{Betty Boop films}}
Category:1930s American animated films
Category:1933 animated short films
Category:Paramount Pictures short films
Category:Fleischer Studios short films
Category:Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
Category:American animated black-and-white films
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