Betty Boop 1933 Cab Calloway "Snow-White"

This 1933 cartoon featuring Cab Calloway is remarkable for having been animated by a single individual, Roland C. Crandall, and is considered one of the best cartoons ever made. Crandall received the opportunity to make Snow White on his own as a reward for his several years of devotion to the Fleischer studio, and the resulting film is considered both his masterwork and an important milestone of The Golden Age of American animation.

(See The 50 Greatest Cartoons, as Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals, edited by Jerry Beck, Turner Publishing, Inc., 1994.)

You don't get to see any live action of Cab in "Snow White," which is too bad, but the animation is incredible and, of course, the music is Cab and his Orchestra at their best.

First Cab sings "St. James Infirmary" in the rotoscoped guise of Koko the Clown. "St. James Infirmary" was Cab's original signature tune, but he wanted something written specifically for himself, so he and Irving Mills wrote "Minnie the Moocher" to supplant "St. James Infirmary." The two melodies are extremely similar, and also bear a close resemblance to "Prohibition Blues." "Snow White" ends with the old Missourians instrumental, "Stopping the Traffic."

This plot, such as it is, is really more a framework to display a series of gags, musical selections, and clever animation. Critics have cited the film as having some of the most imaginative animation and background drawings from the Fleischer Studios artists.
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SOURCE : http://www.heptune.com/snowwhit.html
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[Barry Chenault]

Pennywise turns into Slenderman. Nice.

[crashroader]

The St. James Infirmary song should have been featured on fallout 3 as well. Should have been a hospital on the map called St. James, then when you enter it, this song plays just once over the intercom.

[thevampirefrog06]

I know Bimbo's the official boyfriend, but Betty and Koko. I ship it.

In other news, in what kind of universe do I ship Betty Boop cartoons?

[Лекс Оффер]

Just imagine! This cartoon was created before World War II!

[somotastic21]

Like if you came here because of Vanilla Sky!

[SarahGailCotton]

Can I just say that if without Betty Boop, that queen is the fairest woman in the land, there must be some -ugly- women in that land.

[cupcakexrider]

I love this version the most

[Nobitur]

4:20 for love

[somotastic21]

I know there's probably some hidden meaning to this cartoon, but I just can't figure out what it is. Like for instance, what does the mystery cave represent? And why was this cartoon in particular voted to be kept in the National Library (i believe that's what it was) for posterity?

[Blades4TheUnspoiled]

I wish all I had to do was sing the word "booze" and my head would turn into a bottle...

[Jan Schulte]

4:56

This is called floating animation!

[SuperLaserbean]

love it hah