Stop The Noise Backgrounds

The 1930s Fleischer background paintings are enjoyable to look at, especially the warped cityscapes with boarded up buildings and twisted lampposts. Unfortunately, we don’t get that in Stop That Noise, a 1935 Betty Boop cartoon that’s formulaic and tame compared to her shorts a couple of years earlier.

Myron Waldman and Ed Nolan get the animation credits. I like Betty’s smart little cap as she chugs away in her car to a rural destination. The stone fence has little light reflections on the grey tones in the shot below.



Okay, we get a bit of warping on the farmhouse Betty goes to. The ratty-looking picket fence on the left is on an overlay.



The posts and railings are on overlays, too.



Muted scenics. These are watercolours, aren't they?



Some interiors of Betty's city apartment. There's nothing fancy. Construction workers are animated and trains (not seen below) travel on the “L.”



Instead of reusing the same background of Betty's bedroom, two similar ones were painted.



The Boop Bed.



Unfortunately, the artist isn't credited.