Fleischer Screen Song: Down Among the Sugar Cane (1932)

A Fleischer Brothers "bouncing ball" Screen Song from 1932 featuring "the inimitable" Lillian Roth.

I love these cartoons and I lament that they're mostly unavailable. I'd gladly buy a collection on DVD if they were released that way.

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• Sugar
• Cane

[rrgomes]

There was a laserdisc collection of all the Betty Boop cartoons (including those that were Screen Songs) in the late 1990s but I don't believe it's ever been released on DVD.

I don't know if any of the non-Boop Screen Songs have been released on DVD; I'm unaware of any.

There's one Screen Song that I saw many years ago at an animation festival, "Shine on Harvest Moon" featuring "Alice Joy, Radio's Dream Girl." I've never seen it since then but I'd love to.

And many others as well, of course.

[thegoldenageoftoons]

Screen Songs...it's like the MTV of the '30's. And they thought music videos was a new concept in when MTV debuted in 1981 :)

[Ivanatis]

gotta love her

[CartoonCookie93]

The only cartoons I want to make it onto DVD are the ones originally filmed in color.

For color cartoons on YouTube, I am dying to see "Jasper and the Haunted House" and "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" with the color variant of the UCLA Film Archive logo from 0:01 to 0:17, allthough there are two seperate reasons why I want to see them. "Jasper" is splice-prone on the "Puppetoon Movie" DVD, and "Old MacDonald" needs to be seen with the correct opening/closing logo.

[CartoonCookie93]

@ThePopeyeFan Blame UM&M's negative-cutting. Allthough it was Paramount's giant mistake to sell their cartoon library to UM&M.

[SIMPFANN]

This is great! I love the early Fleischer cartoons. Also, Lillian Roth was really cute when she was young.

[ThePopeyeFan]

UCLA shoulded restored this better. At lest, they could put the Paramount copyright.

[missponyweather]

thank you so much for posting this video! my boyfriend and i saw it at a vaudeville revival about a year ago and have been searching for it ever since.

what a great song and, combined with the unique cartoon, it's priceless!

[Cresantstar]

Did you notice the man at 1:18

He Seems to have betty boops hairstyle :0

i swear ive seen him in some other betty boop cartoons, like in kitty from kansas city as the train man

[cha5]

Great just great,

New subscriber here,

I really wish we could get a DVD set of these Screen Songs and the Fleischer Betty Boop cartoons about like that three volume Popeye DVD set from 1933-1943 that Warner Brothers put out,

I'd buy them in a second.