Olive Films has announced it has planned the release of all Max Fleischer's classic Betty Boop cartoons on Blu-Ray. The first volume of 'Betty Boop The Essential Collection' will be released on July 30th. The cartoons will be newly remastered in HD from 4K scans of the original negatives and fine grains. The first volume will contain 12 cartoons from the period 1932-1937, of which only one is in the public domain today, 'Betty Boop's rise to fame'.
The cartoons collected in the first volume are: 'Chess Nuts', 'Betty Boop, M.D.', 'Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle' and 'Betty Boop for President' (1932) 'Betty Boop for Penthouse', 'Betty Boop's Birtday Party', 'Betty Boop's Halloween Party' (1933) 'Betty Boop's Rise to Fame', 'Betty Boop's Trial' and 'Betty Boop's Life guard' (1934) and 'The Foxy Hunter' from 1937.
Above: Grim Natwick during his stay at UPA films in 1951. Right: Original drawing by Natwick from Fleisher's 'The Bum Bandit' in 1931, one of the earliest Fleisher cartoons starring Betty Boop, before she got her own cartoon series.
Between 1932 and 1939, Betty Boop was one of the most popular cartoon characters, appearing in well over a hundred cartoons from Max Flesicher's animation studio. Her first appearance was in Fleisher's 'Talkartoon' series in 1930. Betty was created by Grim Natwick, who was also lead animator on Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' in 1937. The studio moved to new production facilities from new York to Miami in 1938, and released their first full color Feature animation 'Gulliver's Travel's' a year later. In 1939, brothers Max and Dave Fleisher got into big financial troubles when they released their second feature animation 'Mr. Bug goes into Town' just two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Their studio was acquired by Paramount. More on the Fleisher Studio.
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