Betty Boop and Grampy
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{{Infobox film
| name = Betty Boop and Grampy
| image =
| caption =
| director = Dave Fleischer
| story = William Turner
Jack Ward (unc.)
Thomas Johnson (unc.){{cite book |author= |date=August 1935 |title=Fleischer's Animated News |isbn=}}
| animator = David Tendlar
Charles Hastings
Tex Henson
Thomas Johnson (unc.)
Sam Stimson (unc.)
Graham Place (unc.)
| starring = Mae Questel
(Betty Boop)
Everett Clark (Grampy){{Cite web |last=Evanier |first=Mark |title=Today's Video Link |url=https://www.newsfromme.com/2007/03/03/todays-video-link-679-2/ |publisher=News From ME |date=3 March 2007 |access-date=December 25, 2020}}{{cite web |last=Komorowski |first=Thad |title=Fleischer Promo Art #16: "Betty Slays 'Em!" |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/fleischer-promo-art-16-betty-slays-em/|publisher=Cartoon Research |date=15 September 2014 |access-date=25 December 2020}}
Jack Mercer
(additional voices)
| music = Sammy Timberg
| producer = Max Fleischer
| studio = Fleischer Studios
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1935|08|16}}
| country = United States
| color_process = Black-and-white
| language = English
}}
Betty Boop and Grampy is a 1935 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 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/56/mode/2up |pages=54–56}} The short features Grampy in his first appearance.
Plot
Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm On My Way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop—all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party.
Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices are of the Rube Goldberg variety. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl, and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges.
Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.
In other media
Allie's Activity Kit CD-Rom has clips from the Betty Boop Cartoon when the games are won.
A short clip from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode "Hell Is Other Robots."
Clips from this cartoon are seen in the music video for The Outhere Brothers' song "Boom Boom Boom".
A segment of music from this cartoon was sampled for the episode "Fire Dogs 2" of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", when Ren dances to a flute song by Stimpy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fleischer_max.htm|title=Max Fleischer}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0026109}}
- {{Internet Archive|bb_and_grampy}}
- Betty Boop and Grampy on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ear_Tlk0inQ YouTube].
{{Betty Boop films}}
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Category:1930s American animated films
Category:1935 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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