House Cleaning Blues (1937)

House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.

Betty wakes up after the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shambles, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy. Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain!).

Directed by Dave Fleischer
Animation by Eli Brucker
David Tendlar
Voices by Mae Questel
Produced by Max Fleischer
Distributed by Paramount Studios
Release date January 15, 1937
Format Black-and-white, 6mins
Language English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• public
• domain
• video

[cosmicgirlstar]

OMG! This is my ultimate fave! Betty is so adorable when she gets angry! By the way, where can I find a man like grampy? Lol!

[CaffeineQueen81]

I haven't seen this in a long time. My sister used to have a Betty Boop tape when she was little & this was on it and "A Thousand Times No", the fly swatting one, the one where the car gets fixed and sings, and the "cheer up!" song one. Great memories. Thanks!

[Siljenerdd]

oh my goodness, i used to watch this all the time at my gran's place! :D

[kars010]

I want all of grampy's cleaning gadgets and tricks.

[krazy4klassics]

I'm surprised that this one escaped the censor, as you can clearly see Betty's camel toe in the first kitchen scene. I also wonder if in this episode Betty was depicted as living in South Orange Village NJ, as the homes and the hills resemble that area. I beleive the Fleischer studios were in Brooklyn at that time, so it's possible that an animator lived there (it was on the rail line to NY).

[bcdude126]

I NEED THAT HAT!!!

[midnightaria]

@CaffeineQueen81 I had that same video...my mom was awesome for getting that!

[WWEChampion16]

I wish my Grandpas were like that. But both of them are dead.

[lizajane54]

You used to be able to get these videos really cheap at Big Lots stores.

[lizajane54]

You used to be able to get these videos really cheap at Big Lots stores.