Minnie the Moocher with Cab Calloway & Betty Boop

[Eerie40]

J'avais organisé un festival des frères Fleischer au C.A.C.Voltaire de Genève et tout le monde chantait avec la "Bouncing Ball" ! Un grand souvenir...

[LBNANY]

WAAAAAAHHHAA!!!!!



[unionguy36]

From the early days of animation, when cartooning wasn't dumbed-down for small children. This is for adults, and very far-out surrealist stuff with several drug references. ("She messed around with a bloke named Smoky. She loved him though he was cokey." And "kicking the gong around" means smoking opium.)

[icps86]

are the dads speaking russian? haha

[cliffwalkinfool]

@icps86 I love the way his body starts rotating when he screams, "I don't habit! I don't habit!")

[cha5]

@icps86 It's a takeoff on a Yiddish accent, "Vy von't you eat your hossenfefer?!?"

I really need to check on Wikipedia and Google to see if that's an actual food or not ;-)

[Rundstedt1]

@cha5

'Hasenpfeffer' - it's German. It's a rabbit dish. It comes from the root word 'Hase' (Plural 'Hasen') which is the equivalent of 'Hare' in English, and Pfeffer or Peppered; so its a peppered rabbit stew. Try it with spätzle. Es schmeckt gut.

[sarsgarrs]

@Rundstedt1 sounds good, I wounder if I can get that somewhere around here.

[gentilannice]

These type of cartoons are creepy in a way. I don't know if it's because they're so antique and the way it was made comes off as creepy but to watch this in a dark room by yourself= really scary.

I love the song though.

[Joeyland]

CC is an American original

[TerryNutkins80]

Now, no ones going to tell me that the Fleischer brothers and their animators didn't have a ready supply of good quality reefer kicking about.

[RSop63]

I love that sad song dudes!

[DamnItNanet]

lol he's life and jazz would have been quite different if he had listened to his parents and become a lawyer instead.

[galaxyrock]

Cab Calloway is the coolest guy ever.

[yhantis]

Call me crazy, but that dance Cab Calloway does is kind of sexy, I know he's been dead for probably forever, but there is something about the way he moves, I dunno.

[xsonz2]

He is the envy of men everywhere. Cept' for the dead part.

[rekTHEirrational]

he's not dead yet is he

[purplelover309]

so true stranger so true

[MarthaMartian]

These comments are as good as any video on here.

[juanpoodle]

That was the strangest cartoon i've seen. But I LOVE the song!!

[stephenroth62]

Betty's mother LITERALLY changes Betty's father's tune! LOL

Three ghosts being "killed" in electric chairs? WTF?

[castsxaxshadow]

I wish Cab would haunt me

[telesette]

Good video, thank you very much!

[puglia64]

betty boop wow, good joob good video,,bravo,,

5/5

[vicekartofen]

Great video! 5 stars***** by Vincenzo.

[PTSmash]

This cartoon alone explains so many elements that went into the film "Forbidden Zone." If anyone chooses to watch that movie, they should watch this extraordinary animation.

[XRISSX77]

I felt the same way after watching this. It gave me an apreciation on a whole new level for Elfmans work. Like I had been missing a key influance! I Love the forbidden zone.

[khaals]

Another Boop cartoon contains the lines "Whatch gonna do now? ... Gonna do the best I can", which is quoted in The Nightmare b4 Christmas"

[undinae]

who else saw the ghost with the propeller to hold it up? And who didn't those jail ghosts float out of the prison seeing as they were capable? And why bother executing them? And why is Betty's dad(?) such a bad cook? Never mind! cool, dude!

[cheerbear237]

Cab Calloway= bad ass!

[kathleenirish]

Cab Calloway- brilliant

always loved everything he did

[GodblesstheCutieclub]

Why didn't Betty want to eat? My god what a drama queen. Boy I hope she wasn't going anorexic.

[ncfwhitetigress]

well the flower ate the food and then died so apparently it wasn't very good

[alder2012]

this is a classic fab

[YTaverrose]

this is where the moon wlak came from..

[kll510]

I was scared the first time I saw this cuz I was only a kid. Now I think it's really cool and Cab Calloway was a great singer in his day.

[MabelNormand]

one more comment, i love danny kaye's version of this song too!

[MabelNormand]

i love the reference to "from the inkewell" lol

[FilosSoapEyed]

Dude, is Betty Boop Jewish? Her dad is wearing a kippah...

[yommies11]

thats not a kippah it s just a bald spot isnt it

[Widundret]

it's a kippah. if you lsten you'll hear he talks witha "hebrew" accent.

Betty Boop was totally jewish! Such a sweetheaert =)

[Harlemlate]

I Love it for two reasons the song & the Ghosts

[Harlemlate]

Yeah there Jewish which is cool

[MRKWTZ]

It's incredible how it looks like an InuYasha anime. She is a human and he is a dog. The same with Kagome and Inuyasha. Also, the way they get chased by "youkais" in the cavern similar as heel to an Inuyasha episode with Sango and Miroku. And in the begining, "She's Leaving Home" from The Beatles.

[tomatotv321]

Betty Boop done by a master animator with a song sung by a master musician and composer

[AngFangIndustries]

Wow. That opening footage of Calloway is incredible.

[yjri]

soo cool.

[bizkitchick7409]

thank u .. i have this on vhs.. thanks

[lukejgustafson]

i love this old stuff. especially the constant movement. and the odd cell painting screw up. which we dont go for anymore. i think the producers thought at that time "if it aint moving its boring so keep it movin!"

the walrus creature looks like mostly rotoscoped cab calloway.

[LokiClock]

The animator invented rotoscoping.

[Harlemlate]

I Love this Movie for two reasons the Ghosts & the Song