This is a classic example of cool animation. Overall, outstanding cartoon and up there among Betty Boop's best. Even better is the music, which is rousing, catchy and unquestionably accessible to anybody who loves or is familiar with the composition style. A lot of it is actually very imaginative as well, some of the most inventive and eye-popping of the early Betty Boop cartoons to me. Furthermore, the black and white animation is extremely good, smooth, meticulously detailed and well drawn with the black and white not looking too primitive. It's so rich in imagination, never less than entertaining and is up there as one of Betty's boldest. 'Snow-White' is for me up there with Betty Boop's best cartoons, the story of 'Snow White' is told at its most wonderfully weird and a case of that done to great advantage. Koko is hilarious with some really imaginatively strange moments, while Cab Calloway's involvement proves to be a masterstroke. The charm, sensuality and adorability factors are here and she's fun to watch. The character of Betty Boop, one of their most famous and prolific characters, may not be for all tastes and sadly not as popular now, but her sex appeal was quite daring for the time and to me there is an adorable sensual charm about her. Their visual style often stunning and some of the most imaginative and ahead of its time in animation. and Betty's Snow White might not be as well known as Disney's but I don't recall the latter's doing a rather sensual dance while tied to a tree! If you haven't seen this I'd definitely recommend checking it out you might not think of Snow White in the same afterwards though!įleischer were responsible for some brilliant cartoons, some of them still among my favourites. While it is fairly funny the real enjoyment is seeing just how surreal it is. This was a very imaginative take on the Snow White story cramming the whole tale into just seven minutes including a musical interlude featuring the voice of the great Cab Callaway as Koko. Ultimately the mirror saves Betty and her friends and turns the queen into a hideous monster. After a series of mishaps the end up in a cave, Betty in what appears to be an 'ice coffin' the evil queen turns up and uses the mirror to turn Koko into a strange apparition that sings 'St, James Infirmary Blues'. It looks like she is doomed but they don't harm her. Betty Boop appears as the eponymous Snow White and her regular sidekicks Bimbo and Koko appear as a pair of Knights who are ordered to chop of her head when the queen's magic mirror says that Snow White is the fairest in the land. as one would expect from the Fleischer Brothers. Mention Snow White and everybody will immediately think of the Disney masterpiece this version made four years earlier is much more surreal though. The tape is worth it for this one short alone (although it's excellent and there are other great shorts here as well) and is most highly recommended!!!!!! A shot from the other end of the court at the buzzer and nothing but net!! You have got to see this if you love cartoons! In print and available. That's hard to do under any circumstance. Anyone who is a fan of both Koko and Cab Calloway (I may be the only one, although I hope not) will see both characters in one place at one time, a perfect blend without either dominating. The character is Koko, but the walk is Calloway and it works completely. Cab Calloway is caricatured in cartoons frequently in cartoons from others studios and is quite easily recognizable as Cab Calloway in them, but this is something completely different. The animators captured Cab Calloway's movements perfectly here. James Infirmary Blues", watch his movements. When Koko (voiced by Cab Calloway) sings "St. Everything about this short is fantastic! The music is perfect, the animation is superb and quite darkly creepy in spots, the story is excellent and everything fits together like a seamless jigsaw puzzle.
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