BETTY BOOP-Minnie the Moocher -(With Cab Calloway orquestra)

[prettylilangel]

This is fuckin' morbid....

wow....the 1920's.....they would.

[marcbarker]

My .02 ... to me this work of art was about using some new processes. I think the whole song would have been filmed start to finish, with the sound recorded live. Then after processing the film, parts picked out of Cab Colloway dancing, traced onto film frame by frame as a basis for main dancing figure. Then the film needed a theme=heroin (& the cold turkey demons) what I guess the song is about and a binder story =Betty Boop. Immortal Cab you'll live forever!

[looker768]

"I'll eat some worms and then I'll die". That's what I'm gonna do!

[joeocho88]

Like it or not, CAB CALLOWAY was an important part of Black MUSICAL HISTORY! He was a LOT BETTER than Michael Jackson and until Hurricane Katrina, you could still hear that kind of jazz in certain parts of my hometown --NEW ORLEANS,LA! This cartoon was made when this country was Rabidly racist!It was rare that ANYTHING AFRICAN AMERICAN was portrayed at all...

[jessupar]

you shitting me? the us is still as racist as ever. take a look around yourself, assuming your black (by the point you were trying to make) it wasnt that it WAS rabidly racist, it's that it's more hidden now, because no one wants to have to deal with it.

[XooxerX]

Hey brother, fake it 'till you make it. We can't eliminate hatred all at once. It takes time to heal. I don't think racism is as prevalent as it was in the 20's. Minorities are an intricate part of the American family, and there's much more love going around than hate these days.

[GellyVelly]

In the same vein though, doesn't racism generally imply at least some amount of malice? If the people who created this cartoon were truly "racist" why would have they featured so many amazing black performers?

I'd agree that at the time the culture and entertainment was perhaps not as racially sensitive as it now, but I think it's a bit unfair to vilify or look down on this piece and it's creators because of that alone.

[Michaelcarl]

Now this cartoon

l can not believe what lam seeing

thank's for post ti

[mercurialmoi]

God, look at Cab's ass...*DROOLS*

[babybee281]

St. James Infirmary is another classic cartoon with Cab and Betty Boop! I so love this clip, thanks for sharing

[Yamanoneko]

The song "Minnie the Moocher" is about a woman who gets hooked on heroin. According to Wikipedia, "kick the gong" means to use heroin (the term has an anti-Chinese etymology to boot) and "nickels and dimes" refer to heroin doses. Nowadays, too many people know the drug argot for this cartoon to appear suitable for children.

Fleischer (whose studio created the cartoon) himself got a nastygram from the KKK in Florida for letting Cab Calloway in through the front door of his house.

[MrLMULES]

The family murder we still commit

[Liriks]

Betty is not 25 she's supposed to be 16 according to the creators. She's based on a teenaged flapper. That's why she looks more grown up.

[luv2makevideos2]

um.. why did they get all mad and all at her?

[jimjimereeya]

So, how did you get this? I notice others posting this vid- can't find it on amazon--

Is that walrus ghost a rotoscoping of Cab? Thanks, Jim

[williamwhiston]

Yes.

[Macskafogo]

Luv it!

[creamofcardstv]

Hi, I like your video and have rated it as awesome. Please check out my vid clip of some rare jazz musicians and dance band Leaders cigarette cards, issued in 1936. They include Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and many more.

[thechurchofdave]

If you like the moonwalk here try checkin out the old soundies where break dancing was displayed. Any time you think you see something original in media just look harder. It's been done ;) lol

[iseedeadpeople]

AGH! That front Moonwalk was awsome!! Way better then the MJ MoonWalk! I also like the Evil faces behind the walrus!

[Javer80]

Hah! I love the Koko reference!

[GALACTOSE]

All I have to say is Cab Calloway is awesome!! Don't forget how important audio is for any type of video or cartoon...

"Have you ever seen that funny reefer man?"

[sharonphillips]

No no. It was all an acid trip. The forward moonwalk was fantastic!

S

[wolphintv]

3:10 minutes in = Best. Metareference. EVER.

How many people got it?

[rhyfeddu]

wolpintv - thx for the heads up. That was creator Max Fleischer @ 3:10, right? Totally got by me the first time.

[Taymation]

So...Betty runs away from home and into Satans petting zoo? Surely it would have been just as easy to make Cab into a skeleton for that animated bit...

And anyway, shouldn't she have already left home? I mean, she's what, 25?

[jdbsnake]

Quality entertainment, better then the crap cartoons they show nowadays anyway.

[akf2000]

dudes! first ever moonwalk!

[hampsterkey]

first ever forward moonwalk, way ahead of his time. lol.

[dukeyflyswatter]

Da bomb!

[cifey]

The Walrus seems to be a costume but also an animation, kind of odd.

The underlying theme seems to be about racial intermixing.

[williamwhiston]

What? Racial intermixing? If that was the theme, why would they even let Cab and his orchestra in the cartoon? That's just silly, your stretching for racial references. It's a "outside is scary" reference.