Betty Boop-1938-Sally Swing

[bordence]

Sally has got some serious moves!

[iwantoldschool]

5:36 - New York University professor for certain :)

[TheDrinoC]

I used to swing dance, then i took an arrow in the knee.

[ultimateinfinityX2]

amazing cartoon and i loved how they drew betty's head in this one.

[hewhoshunsthelight]

Betty boop is more popular today then she ever was back then and a very sexy icon of a character long live Betty boop And let's all do the sally swing and shake our things

[CAPRICORNCUTIE]

"what are you doing there scrubbing you should be cleaning up" - i love their lines like that in the good cartoons

[dukeuke1]

Dear Betty, I`m having the SAME Problem finding Cats who Play Swing here in So.Calif.

[Ivanatis]

haha Donald

[saritajakhere]

Good god! What is Sally on!?

[flapitify]

Wow she can dance! :O :-)

[voltaman33]

Betty Boop is trippy.  Especially the earlier ones.

[fullmoon1230]

lol, why is Betty the only one with the overly sized head?

[bluerassberry11]

haha 5:50

lol XD

[MabelNormand]

I love the songs from these cartoons! Wonderful.

[tj9234]

i got to say back then cartoons makes you unknowing'ly learn some thing like dictionary words dance moves ect...ect... and have fun doing it to but for some reason todays cartoons dont doit any more its just mind numming crap.

[VenomLeon]

5:24 LOL xD

MAN, I wanna go back in time! Screw this future!

[TheArtsCountess]

Heard Lyrics: Bring along that jam, / And look a little Sally Swing / Oh Sally, oh Sally, oh swing / Don't wanna mozy around with Mozart / He wrote a symphony, so what? / Don't wanna beat it out with Beethoven / I want my music and my biscuits hot! / Lead 'em in that groove / I wanna lead a band and sing / Oh dilly, oh dally, oh sally, oh swing it, swing it / Ah laddle-ee dada-cha-da / A-cha-a-cha-a-cha-a-cha / Swing!

[pulquelio]

madonna se conserva muuuuy bieeen para su edad



[diddymuck]

resembles lois lane in the superman cartoons.

[kokobearification]

What happened to boop-boop-de-doop?!?!?

[darkridr25]

@09mkht Just to add to gavtatu's response: There was no such thing as racism back then. They were racist the way Adam and Eve were naked. They didn't think there was anything wrong with using stereotypes back then.

Ahhh...sweet innocence....

[darkridr25]

Love the music in these. I heard there was a resurgence of both swing and big band styles for a while, but it just didn't catch on.

[Oceananswer]

@09mkht duh

[gavtatu]

@09mkht not racist, just stereotyping, the same as the negro and the chinaman that were portrayed in those days i'd say !

[PrincesJennifer5]

I Love betty and sally! There both so cute!

[xTogetherInParis]

this is so cute! <3

[jikkehond]

Ahhhhhh, my favorite cartoon girl is Betty and i feel young again and wish i was as slim as she was :-)))))

[Suzan4B]

awesome..My whole childhood before me! So vintage!!

[rainbowonfire]

This is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Betty Cartoon!

Thanks for uploading it! :>

[TheDegrassichick101]

at 2:21 she has 6 fingers wow

[NintendoN0ir]

Laughed so much at 1:53

[marcusanakonda]

Epic dance at 1:07, and then: 'Good night, you're fired!!!' :DDD Betty Boop rules!!!! :DDD

[nicolereyes33]

008Jellyfish u make sence kk

[nicolereyes33]

sally swing! it wuld be cool if swing was still cool even wid young ppl

[nblBer]

the cartoon was never the same after 1934

[NostalgiaAttack]

@nblBer not a bad thing, 1950s-70s cartoon was still gold

[CattFightt]

what genre of music would this "sally swing" song be???

[NicaxMVs]

this is sooooo cute

[animalslover555]

Wooohooo

[dfarmbrough]

Directed by Willard Bowsky who sadly died young during World War II. Quite cinematic in scope, but the faces' expressions are more static, showing darting eyes rather than the full range of human expressions. The movements of the people are not so fluid as in the early years, and the dancing is only partially succesful (though well synchronised). Love the fade halfway through, and the hands and fingers are superbly done!

[lalafunnys]

2:09 ...why are the Irish boys dancing like Cossacks? XDD

[anniem63]

this cartooon is absolutely fantastic!!!!

[autophyte]

She's got' Astro Boy" eyes AT 2:17

[Marbles471]

@autophyte

Actually it's more accurate to say that Astro Boy had Betty Boop eyes, since Max Fleischer cartoons were one of Osamu Tezuka's strongest influences early in his career.

[BiscuitBanna]

@Marbles471

Dont forget that Tezuka's Princess Knight had Betty Boop's hairstyle, including the prince.

[Maramduke]

i luv her sooooooooooooooo much i luv betty boop she my favoriteeeeeee i luv u betty boop<3

[TheMarioluigifans]

i LOVE her voice, not to mention the song itself!

[futuregirlpianist]

REALLY liked this! Nice break from heavy studying, thanks for posting! :>

[PurpleVintageRobot]

This is the best! What a classic!

[FaeryRibbon]

Lol, nice chicken dance. XD

[EvilCatsss]

If a female character's four fingers remained "stuck" together like that in a show then I always figured it had something to do with convenience- quicker to draw, for example. I see that's not the case here, though. Perhaps it was done for a similar reason? The answer may be on the internet in interviews about the creator's art, but that will obviously take quite a bit of effort and time to search for. Just a suggestion.

[TigerRocket]

@EvilCatsss I think it's an economy of line and stylizing. Other Betty cartoons from the same year look slightly different based on who the head animator was. Each one brought their own style of line movement to both Betty and Popeye.

[neatoauctions]

Betty Boop is a ankle-length dress?! Fully out of character.

[JRaawr]

5:51 LMFAO ROFL!

[JRaawr]

Is She The Only Cartoon Character that Changed Clothes?

[008Jellyfish]

Everyone. At 2:23 Betty has five fingers on each hand.What looks like a sixth finger is simply the frame of the door, not an additional digit. Lastly, to everyone wondering why her fingers are positioned in that way, it has to do with the era.This was a hand position that was considered very feminine for women. If you look at a lot of the cartoons/artwork/posters from this era you'll see women doing this.

[mynameisrhoya]

@008Jellyfish thats really cool i never knew that!

[FaeryRibbon]

@008Jellyfish I've noticed that a lot of the Barbie dolls I had when I was little had their hands like that. :)

[sneakt2b]

@008Jellyfish At @04:04 to @04:07 also Sally makes the same hand gestures: middle two fingers together. At other times all four fingers and thumb drawn separately. In fact the details in the hand animation is quite amazing here.

[HomerSimpson111]

@008Jellyfish why are you saying everyhting like its sciense its cartoon and comedy its nott supposed to be wonderfully drawn xD

[008Jellyfish]

@HomerSimpson111

Because cartoons and pop culture are reflective of their culture and time. While you and some others think they are simply "cartoons and comedy", to others it's more than that. There's a reason why there are books and documentaries done on cartoons and other media from different eras.

Lastly, the word is "science" not "sciense". There was nothing "scientific" about what I said. It was simply a bit of history for those that seemed interested.

[HomerSimpson111]

@008Jellyfish well my english sux, so dont blame me if l misspelled a word

[CAPRICORNCUTIE]

@HomerSimpson111 i think normal people fully understood what you were spelling, you dont need to over explain yourself. Just keep enjoying how you view these toons. :)

[Zodicz]

now why aint these awsome old series on the Disney chanel! this is pure entertainment!

[omggal246]

hi

[ilove5894]

hi omggal!!

[omggal246]

wtf 5:53

[omggal246]

sally rox!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LimeLilly]

@5:51 hahaha hilarious!

[tallshortie]

I love sally's laugh :D and her outfit ;)

[CuteyErin1]

RUSSIAN XD

[sweetappletits]

betty aint sexy betty no more

[moxie96]

@sweetappletits they had to bring her into the 30's since her traditional look is strictly the 20's with a slight update and the cleaner look of a long drape dress and sleeked down hair was the trend the year this cartoon was made. I forgot they did that to betty boop until now...

[sweetappletits]

@moxie96 so the short dress was from the 20s??? woowww lol :-)

[sweetappletits]

this shud be a rags to riches story ;-)

[maharley27]

The animation is amazing for a cartoon this old. It made me want to get up and dance!

[Rodita1]

Whoa that sally can swing!

[BLUTONIUMBERRY1]

Watching the old cartoons such as Betty Boo makes today's cartoons look like shit

[KidInsideAKid]

Too bad cartoons will laugh just because they are running or pressing a key on the piano.

[youhavegottabejoking]

This is possibly one of the best musical cartoons that does NOT have Betty singing. Does anyone know who did the voice for Sally Swing. I know Mae Questal did Betty's voice for years (as well as Olive Oyl's).

[Nekosama89]

@youhavegottabejoking It's not Helen Cane who made Betty's voice?

[Mutedvox]

@Nekosama89 Mae Questel was the voice of Betty and Olive Oyl.

[BooppoopaDoop]

@Mutedvox

Yeah but this is Margie Hines who was also the voice of both Betty & Olive Oyl aswell. Mae Questel Quit voicing Betty in 1938, Questels last role as Betty was in Be Up to Date (1938). Oh and Bonnie Poe also voiced Both Olive Oyl & Betty aswell but only from 1933-1934. Sally Swing's voice is provided by Rose Marie who was known as Baby Rose Marie. Rose Marie was a talented Singer sothere was no need for Betty to Sing in this episode.

[Mutedvox]

@BooppoopaDoop interesting all the people who gave voice to Betty. Mae last gave voice to Betty in "Roger Rabbit"..

[deaddoc]

@BooppoopaDoop Thanks for the info. Mae Questel was really something. What a New Jersey brogue!

[BooppoopaDoop]

@deaddoc

your welcome <3

[99SweetCheecks]

isnt she lovely 

[morphississ]

1:48

Donald before Disney XD

2:39

Kind of looks like Olive Oil. XD Still, found it rather charming how Betty brought a poor, but talented female character into the spotlight. Shame that Sally didn't grow in popularity and Betty didn't promote any more neat ladies. 

[biryanifan]

@morphississ Fleischer actually planned to spin Sally off into her own series—but this first one apparently flopped, so it didn't happen.

[tomitstube]

@biryanifan ~ you made me look it up. sally swing was rose marie, who is most known for the dick van dyke show. she would have been about 15 when they did this.

[robertwmartens]

6:18 Very impressive layout!

[jdmiau]

Dios mio!!! que bueno!! XD

[andoc]

The animation is excellent for the year this was made, but the voice acting is simply fantastic.

[TinisenTinA]

So this isn't the original from the thirties? Is this a new version?! :)

[Shoknifeman]

@TinisenTinA This is from 1938, by that time, Betty had been "cleaned up" by the Hays office (Having lost her short skirt and garter) and her proportions were made much more realistic... but, also much less appealing.

[andoc]

@Shoknifeman So that is what happened. I like how they proportioned her, this new look with the old dress and garter would have been great to look at.

[Shoknifeman]

@andoc Really? I prefer the old proportions, but, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ^_^'

[juliana130900]

CALLATE TONTO JAJAJA

[juliana130900]

SI PUDIERAN REVIVIR A BETTY BOOP CON EPISODIOS PERO MEJORADOS Y A COLOR ESO SI LO QUISIERA VER (SI MAY REVIVE A BETTY BOOP EPISODES BUT WITH IMPROVED COLOR AND THAT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE)

[90sComputerGames]

That was CRAZY! Thanks for sharing, mistah!

[seeninfairytales]

That Sally cleans up good xD

[k4tjes]

5:49

[UberObsessed]

Was that a dollar bill I saw down Betty's bodice at one point?

[MySetDancer1]

This was shown in movie theaters where adults and children would have watched. The music and pop-culture themes would have appealed to young people and annoyed many adults, much like hip-hop does today with its crude references, crotch-grabbing, and pure commercial origins.

[imajika2]

For some reason, that fat lady in the club complaining about her soup just cracks me up! 

[Nekosama89]

@imajika2 I like it hot, hot, hot! xDD

[LunorNoir]

hahahaha!! 5:27

" i like it hot hot ha! ha! ha!"

[chickitygurl]

the sally girl sings great

[lalishelaide]

What a versatile band!

[cmlbjr88]

This is an awesome cartoon! I love swing jazz music and this music just captures the culture of the young people just wanting to get out and have some fun and dance!

About the hand thing, hands and feet are really hard to draw. Even the betty was modeled after a real person her hands and feet are disproportioned because she is a cartoon but even cartoon hands are hard to draw. It is deeply ironic!

[misszeynoob]

lol bhahahahahahahahaha we betty starts to dance her head is so funny

[zsimmitus]

wud anyone else tap sally?

[Lieu3C4]

It pays to put principals first.

[GuerraGonzalo]

in 2:23 she has 6 fingers on her right hand and five in her left and some of them look like if they are glued together? is it like a kind of subliminal message

[1FreestyleStoner4]

@GuerraGonzalo Hey Guys Im Thinking Thats A Masonic Sign in 2:23, Freemasons Are Everywhere, It Looked Like It Makes The Devil Stars

[kirkenbunken]

THIS WHOLE THING IS LAME!!!!! HERE I AM WATCHING, AND NOTHING IS OF SIGININIGING WITH A HINT OF SEXUAL PERVERSION! A CIRCUS IS EXIBITING FOR THOSE WHO CAME OUT LESS THAN TEN YEARS AFTER! THE RAPIST GUY NEVER PULLED ANY OF THAT!

[dfarmbrough]

@kirkenbunken I think this takes the prize as the least coherent comment I have seen on a YouTube video. And that's saying something!

[JawiiJiwaa]

i like this old American stuff, i wish they would still make entertainment and music like this...what happened to this?

[misszeynoob]

@JawiiJiwaa ME TO I LOVE OLD STUFF LIKE THIS MY BROTHER SAY TO ME EVERY TIME I WACH THIS HE SAY HOW CAN YOU LIKE THIS CRAP I JUST LOVE IT I WONT IT TO BE BACK

[superneoncolors]

some old music isnt that bad

[mookawz]

5:52 ROFLOLING!!!!!!!!!!

[MrLego10000]

Lol boner at 209

[QueenB41295]

this is my fave bb cartoon.

[skatekai]

when the guy stands up 2:09 he reveals his boner :O

[popeyecartoons]

Check out my channel for the 1st ever Popeye cartoon - featuring Betty Boop. Simply click on the link.

[HaggisMcCrablice]

I dig the way women moved in these early cartoons--see, for example, Betty's pondering and annoyed faces, or how Sally holds heir head up to show the underside of her chin and neck. Much more lively and realistic than a bunch of flat, limited, generic three-quarter profiles and handful of stock expressions that define the industry now.

Were the two fellows at the beginning caricatures of anyone in particular? Maybe of the Fleischer boys themselves, in a nice self-depricating dig?

[tenorsingsfromheart]

@HaggisMcCrablice I thought I was the only one who thought that about today's cartoons!

[Cresantstar]

oh and also rose marie did the voice for Sally swing, rose marie was the child star Baby rose marie.

if she can perform that great as an adult i wonder what her other performances sound like.

[MichaelOfPop]

5:50

lol

[51235465789]

bAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAA 5:24

[Tonage4]

dudes adams apple looooooooooooooooooool

[rougexknux]

iv noticed that when some charachters talk there mouths ether hang oten or stay cloesed

[stlgtrace]

Betty isn't as sexy as she was in the early 30's.

[Iishieboo]

@stlgtrace

They had to tone her down. Originally, she was supposed to be for adults and many of her cartoons had sexual themes, later she was aimed at younger people

[stlgtrace]

The Production Code of '34 really "stripped" Betty of most of her sexiness and after that she had to share the spotlight and lost a lot of her stardom and frankly some of her star quality.

[zoyclem]

@stlgtrace

She was toned down after the Hays Film Code of 1934.

[stlgtrace]

The "Hays Code" had existed since the 1920s but it had no teeth. It was revised in 1930 by Irving Thalberg no less but was blatantly ignored. It wasn't until Joe Breen swept into power in '34 and threatened the movie industry with a huge boycott that the powers decided to pay attention. And yes, Betty Boop was one of the victims. She lost most of her sexiness and was pushed into the background as a sort of Emcee.

[Cresantstar]

@stlgtrace

not to mention betty boops cartoons were about to retire from 1938 - 1939

but i dont mind in this cartoon at least betty is giving the spotlight to someone else, sally swing is suppost to be simuler to betty grable

also not to mention buzzy boop was made before this and buzzy adds someone the scat lyrics like - Da Da Da Di Da Di, which sally has seemed to reprise in this role, which means from 1938 the Betty Boop cartoons was in the swing era

[Ronayspy]

i love betty boop but can any one till

the old men who wearing the black

is a sign of what , and why Sally wears like him at the end ?

[Iishieboo]

@Ronayspy

The coat and hat the man is wearing is what people wear when they graduate. It's a scholar's way of dressing, meaning that people who had gone to school and college would wear one. Professors are often shown wearing them.

Why Sally got the cap and gown as well? I suppose it's to symbolize that she graduated school. I'm a little confused by that myself.

[dfarmbrough]

@Iishieboo I think it's supposed to be a teacher's outfit. Mortarboards and gowns are the traditional way of drawing teachers in comics, compare with Will Hay.

[thefruitofaliens]

Something's not right about this cartoon.........

[0oLilitho0]

in addition to my previous comment, my great grandmother's hands also looked like this at times...

[0oLilitho0]

at 2:19 how come her two fingers in the middle look like that, like they're glued together ive noticed this in female characters in other cartoons from this era.

[Iishieboo]

@0oLilitho0

I think it's done because it looks dainty and feminine. Female hands are shown as small, delicate and gentle, while male hands are shown as clutching, brutish and rough. The positioning of the hand with the middle and ring finger together give it a softer look.

Also, I'm sure it's easier to draw as those two fingers are almost drawn as one.

[NCWeber]

@0oLilitho0 That was a trick to reduce the amount of detail that needed to be animated. It's also why character like Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse only have four fingers instead of five.

[itachisxeyes]

@0oLilitho0 if you look at all characters in cartoons (more human shaped ones) they all are like that. its cause, the human hand is probably the hardest thing to draw correctly (you'd be surprised how much realism goes into cartoonist training) and so artists either develop or are taught the habit of drawing them like that, not quite as exaggerated as her's where. its to help make hands easier to draw.

[GhostKittyROBLOX]

@0oLilitho0 that's the same thing i wanna know, i saw tinkerbell do the same..

[1FreestyleStoner4]

@0oLilitho0 Hey Guys Im Thinking Thats A Masonic Sign in 2:23, Freemasons Are Everywhere, It Looked Like It Makes The Devil Stars

[GuerraGonzalo]

@0oLilitho0 mmm they just told me it was a masonic symbol worshiping the devil but i dont really know

[XxGlassxVioletxX]

@0oLilitho0 It is just a way of drawing them, to make them look dainty-er or something, I suppose.

[tasteslikeginger]

@0oLilitho0 its supposed to be lady like :} at least in cartoons

[awynn87]

@0oLilitho0 I think its just easier to draw that way

[RemusLupo]

@0oLilitho0

its not something noticable but when u open ur hand..the two centre fingers are fixed where they are...teh index and pinky can move more freely so they just emphasize it.

[1944jhd]

@0oLilitho0- In cartoon animation rules, characters are only allowed to have four fingers. Or, three fingers and a thumb. To show that they're not real.

[fmichaelb]

@1944jhd

Look at 1:11....that guy has four fingers and a thumb.

[didadaismo]

@0oLilitho0  what others cartoons?

[008Jellyfish]

@0oLilitho0

It was considered feminine for women.

[mynameisrhoya]

@0oLilitho0 what other cartoons is it in? i'd love to see :)

[JoshFritz561]

@0oLilitho0 She's reppin West Side beech

[mrwesdaddy]

Damn this was so cool! Sally swing was killing it!

[5nerds20]

estan chidos los capitulos

[mookindahouse]

Rose Marie from the Dick Van Dyke Show is voicing Sally Swing

[Bigmac79]

Great Music.... but they are all white.... :)

Racist Times...

[KjinAboii]

lol good point. It's supposed to be swing. :P

[herrMaria]

of course it's was wrong but we can't go back in the time and change everything. plus things are so much better now so don't complain.

[an0n1mous324]

5:50 lol and wat someone's comment said dat they dance like dat when they're drunk lol. Greatest dancing ever on a cartoon character.

[ThePilsnerX]

The Fleischer brothers were trying to introduce some new characters at this time (another one was Gabby the Town Crier), but they didn't catch on with the public. Poor Sally, I think this was her only cartoon... still a good one, though.

[cjodie21]

good singin an music

classic

[loyalfalconflutist]

why are betty's arms so thick?

[SiYoFueraDios]

fabuloso...Sally Swing...ha ha ...jejejeje

happy