Ha! Ha! Ha! (film)
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{{Infobox film
| name = Ha! Ha! Ha!
| image = Ha Ha Ha (1934).webm
| caption =
| director = Dave Fleischer
| story =
| animator = Seymour Kneitel
Roland Crandall
| starring = Mae Questel {{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 |pages=336}}
| music =
| producer = Max Fleischer
| studio = Fleischer Studios
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1934|03|02}}
| color_process = Black-and-white
| runtime = 7 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Ha! Ha! Ha! is a 1934 Fleischer Studio animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Koko the Clown.{{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/54/mode/2up |pages=54–56}}
Plot
Max Fleischer draws Betty, then leaves her for the night in the studio at 5:00 pm. Koko escapes from the inkwell and helps himself to a candy bar left behind by Max. He starts to eat some of it. But, he soon gets a toothache. Betty tries to perform some amateur dentistry on Koko, by trying to yank the bad tooth out while dancing. After this fails, she attempts to calm him down but uses too much laughing gas, causing Betty and Koko to laugh hysterically. The laughing gas spreads the room, making a cuckoo clock and a typewriter laugh hysterically. The laughing gas then goes out the window and spreads into town. Both people and inanimate objects begin laughing hysterically, including a mailbox, a parking meter, a bridge, cars, and even gravestones. The short ends when Betty and Koko get back in the inkwell and it begins laughing, before panting.
Production notes
This is a partial remake of the 1924 Koko animated short, The Cure. It is also Koko's last theatrical appearance. (For more information about Koko, see Koko the Clown).
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ianbtmintqY Ha! Ha! Ha! on YouTube]
- [https://archive.today/20130117174650/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1584-Ha!_Ha!_Ha!.html Ha! Ha! Ha! at the Big Cartoon Database]
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025213 Ha! Ha! Ha! at the IMDb].
- {{cite web|title=Ha! Ha! Ha!|work=TV.com|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/betty-boop/ha-ha-ha-485078/}}
{{Betty Boop films}}
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Category:Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
Category:1930s American animated films
Category:Articles containing video clips
Category:American animated black-and-white films
Category:1934 animated short films
Category:Paramount Pictures short films
Category:Fleischer Studios short films
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