Being a Fleischer cartoon, something has to sprout a face, or arms and legs. In this one, the dog’s nose gets caught in the slide-down door of the window. Never fear. It grows arms and legs and rescues itself, presumably returning to the dachshund.
The cartoon's credited animators are Grim Natwick and Ted Sears (see comments for more).
Yeah, I know, Betty Boop. But my favourite character is the dancing roast chicken.
"The cartoon's credited animators are Grim Natwick and Seymour Kneitel."
ReplyDeleteGrim Natwick and Ted Sears, actually. But the featured scene, and kitchen scenes abutting it, are by Seymour Kneitel.
And you're not the only one who finds other things in this cartoon more appealing than Betty's appearance.
Thanks, Zack. I don't what I was thinking, other than I likely was watching several Fleischer cartoons before posting this.
DeleteThere's lots to enjoy in these early sound Talkartoons.
A neat thing somewhere around this scene there's a board with Hebrew lettering on it; really drives home that Fleischer was out of New York and not California
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago, I made the mistake of buying THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BETTY BOOP: THE 100-YEAR HISTORY OF AN ANIMATED ICON by Peter Benjaminson, which I cannot recommend because of its many factual errors and misconceptions. The author's discussion of this scene in "Dizzy Dishes" is a case in point.
ReplyDeleteIn the cartoon, immediately prior to the entrance of the character whom you've correctly identified as "a dachshund with a German accent," we see a Yiddish-accented character demand "I vant ham!" He gets a ham (marked "kosher in Hebrew letters) thrown in his face. Then the German-accented dachshund says: "Bagels and fishes! Vhere's my knishes? Mach schnell!" So the Jewish character wants ham, and the German one wants Jewish cuisine. That's the joke. Not especially funny, but not terribly hard to understand.
Benjaminson avers that both characters must be Jewish, because they're wearing hats. The injunction "Mach schnell!" indicates that "the waiter might be an American Jew of German origin," but in that case, what's the joke? Benjaminson then garbles the character's line into "Bagels and bitches, I want knishes." Bagels and bitches??? Oy gevalt, the things people get away with writing in books these days....