Thanks for posting this rare cartoon, Host! I love classic cartoons and dabble in animation myself. You can see my cartoons on my channel. I'm gonna subscribe to your channel and send a friend request, if that's okay with you. It's good to meet someone with fine taste in animation. Fleischer toons ROCK!
He appeared in Fleischer cartoons from 1930 to 1933, when he was eliminated from Betty's series by the Production Code censorship laws, since a dog with a human girlfriend gave implications of bestiality.
Bimbo is a fictional character, a cartoon dog created by Fleischer Studios. He first appeared in the Out of the Inkwell series and was originally named Fitz.
He later became the star of Fleischer's Talkartoons series, making his first appearance as Bimbo in Hot Dog (1930). Bimbo was relegated to a supporting character when his girlfriend Betty Boop became a more popular character. The Talkartoons series became the Betty Boop series in 1932. WIKIPEDIA PART ONE
I recently went to a 16mm film festival. they showed this. I videotaped it right off the screen but had to change the battery in the beginning. AUDIENCE REACTED LIKE THEY SHOULD.
@BoltMitch This wasn't posted to be an ultimate copy of the cartoon. If the cartoon gets put out as part of a DVD set in the future, then I'm sure that it'll be completely intact. This copy was taken as a clip from part of a show that presents often trimmed and altered versions of old movies and cartoons. The titles on the film print are not the original theatrical tiles anyway, so if you are a purist, you would have been annoyed no matter how it was posted.
You have done the near IMPOSSIBLE: Shown us a gritty old short as CLOSE to how we'd have seen it in the theatre as possible. Thank you for sucking it straight off a screen WITHOUT the superfluous digital image cleansing they insist on lathering on to every fricking video and DVD release in the fricking world. You are doing the world a great service, in giving us back the 'feel' of this artifact. Merci.
Thanks for sharing this. I'd never seen this one. Very good print.
A lot of the pre-Betty Boop Talkartoons are unjustly obscure and hard to find. I think this is a particularly interesting one; dare i say it seems to anticipate "Porky in Wackyland".
I wish that guy with the robber was me!
RecordKing44 2 months ago
Thanks for posting this rare cartoon, Host! I love classic cartoons and dabble in animation myself. You can see my cartoons on my channel. I'm gonna subscribe to your channel and send a friend request, if that's okay with you. It's good to meet someone with fine taste in animation. Fleischer toons ROCK!
frankdiddly 4 months ago
I love the surreal humor of these early 30s Fleischer cartoons.
Bizarronumber4 1 year ago
He appeared in Fleischer cartoons from 1930 to 1933, when he was eliminated from Betty's series by the Production Code censorship laws, since a dog with a human girlfriend gave implications of bestiality.
wikipedia part 2
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
Bimbo is a fictional character, a cartoon dog created by Fleischer Studios. He first appeared in the Out of the Inkwell series and was originally named Fitz.
He later became the star of Fleischer's Talkartoons series, making his first appearance as Bimbo in Hot Dog (1930). Bimbo was relegated to a supporting character when his girlfriend Betty Boop became a more popular character. The Talkartoons series became the Betty Boop series in 1932. WIKIPEDIA PART ONE
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
read WIKIPEDIA about "Bimbo (Fleischer)"
is this on dvd? or any BIMBO on dvd?
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
the 16mm showing was not like this. but i had to change batteries so i cut off the title card. i wonder if this is on DVD?
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
I recently went to a 16mm film festival. they showed this. I videotaped it right off the screen but had to change the battery in the beginning. AUDIENCE REACTED LIKE THEY SHOULD.
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
Great cartoon! But why did you take out the copyright info and the closing title card? You should put that stuff back in for posterity.
BoltMitch 1 year ago
@BoltMitch This wasn't posted to be an ultimate copy of the cartoon. If the cartoon gets put out as part of a DVD set in the future, then I'm sure that it'll be completely intact. This copy was taken as a clip from part of a show that presents often trimmed and altered versions of old movies and cartoons. The titles on the film print are not the original theatrical tiles anyway, so if you are a purist, you would have been annoyed no matter how it was posted.
HorrorShowHost 1 year ago 2
@BoltMitch You should be glad that you can see it here at all. This is probably the only chance you'll ever get to see this cartoon in any form.
HorrorShowHost 1 year ago
@HorrorShowHost Thanks for our response on the history this video!
BoltMitch 1 year ago
@HorrorShowHost Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see it. It's a lot of fun!
BoltMitch 1 year ago
@HorrorShowHost
someone i know has it on a 16mm
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
@BoltMitch Not him. Paramount did this years ago after they sold the Fleischer toons to TV.
Staszu13 3 months ago
I would love to see this in a better quality, but I like it.
baxterfilms 1 year ago
I saw this somewhere before...
TommyStudios10 1 year ago
Wow. Watch this one on a triple-bill with Swing You Sinners and Bimbo's Inititation. . .it will mess you up for days! But in a good way ;-)
GreatBigSea1968 2 years ago
You have done the near IMPOSSIBLE: Shown us a gritty old short as CLOSE to how we'd have seen it in the theatre as possible. Thank you for sucking it straight off a screen WITHOUT the superfluous digital image cleansing they insist on lathering on to every fricking video and DVD release in the fricking world. You are doing the world a great service, in giving us back the 'feel' of this artifact. Merci.
BucketFurter 2 years ago 2
WOW! Marked as fav! Pretty scary though.
ClawMachine44 2 years ago
Another thing the cartoons of today lacked: The ability to scare and send thrills and chills up your spine as well as make you laugh.
1aundulxaldin 2 years ago 2
Thanks for sharing this. I'd never seen this one. Very good print.
A lot of the pre-Betty Boop Talkartoons are unjustly obscure and hard to find. I think this is a particularly interesting one; dare i say it seems to anticipate "Porky in Wackyland".
infrogmation 2 years ago
A really unique obscure cartoon,
Do you have anymore early
pre Betty Boop Fleischer toons of this vintage in your film vault?
cha5 3 years ago
No, I have several Betty Boop film prints and a copy of Bimbo's Initiation (but that one is available everywhere)
HorrorShowHost 3 years ago
The old stuff still holds up pretty well.
4thtroika 3 years ago