A cow (wearing boots) is straddling the rail tracks munching on grass. The speeding Betty Boop Limited hits it. Look what happens. The cow returns to the track in parts, its tail jumps back on it and it resumes placidly munching.
The Fleischer studio had an interesting type of brush work when it came to speed effects. We pointed it out in a post on Riding the Rails, a 1938 Boop cartoon.
Willard Bowsky and Tom Bonfiglio are the credited animators. Sammy Timberg and Bob Rothberg, according to ASCAP, supplied the score.
Does put the lie to the idea that speed lines weren't around until Disney thought of them for "The Tortoise and the Hare", even if it was a train here instead of a character.
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