Tuesday 5 September 2023

Grade A, Too

A cow gets smacked by the Betty Boop Limited in the 1932 cartoon of the same name.

It happened twice. We went through the first time in this post. It happens to close the cartoon (in reused drawings).



The cow flips over. The cow doesn’t come down in pieces like in a butcher shop (with an accompanying “Kosher For Passover” sign. But we get the same type of gag as the cow flips over.

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I like the incongruity of the cow wearing rubber work boots.

Willard Bowsky and Tom Bonfiglio are the credited animators.

The soundtrack includes the Fleischers’ favourite train song, Beyond the Blue Horizon. Here’s a version for you fans of Hammond organs.

4 comments:

  1. Train-wise, "Beyond the Blue Horizon" had two things going for it Fleischer-wise: It became an early talkies hit from its prominent use in the 1930 film "Monte Carlo" where it accompanies scenes on fast-moving trains, one time sung by, and becoming the signature song of, Jeanette MacDonald, and secondly, it belonged to Paramount.

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  2. Which one is Al Nevins, the.Sun who later joined with.Don Kirchner to form Aldon Music?

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    1. Al's on guitar. His brother Marty played the accordion.

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  3. Alexander Courage said his main inspiration for composing the original "Star Trek" theme was a recording of "Beyond the Blue Horizon" that "suggested the heavens."

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