![]() ![]() What they did was use their own proprietary in house “Stereoptical” camera-called the “Setback”-which was developed that year. Yes, with all the other near-psychedelic eye candy going on here, pay careful attention to the backgrounds. One of the really impressive elements of Poor Cinderella-besides every single thing about it-is the way they did the backgrounds. Second, Max Fleischer was the inventor of the Rotoscope-he patented the process in 1915-which aided in animating movement by tracing frames of live action film. It’s like watching a moving stained glass window. A recent HD transfer-part of the Betty Boop: Essential Collection 4 Blu-ray-gives us a clear glimpse of what a perfectly cut diamond this artistically and historically important short animation truly is. Poor Cinderella has been in the public domain for many years, but always in scratchy, crappy-looking, less impressive versions. Again, it looks all the better for this, as you will see. It’s not so much a full color production, as one rendered in shades of black, white, blue and red. Walt Disney had locked up the rights to use Technicolor’s new 3-strip process from 1932 to 1935, but this limitation just makes the art direction look even better. A celebrity cameo from famous crooner and radio personality Rudy Vallée, the Justin Bieber of the time.įirst off, the film was made with the two-strip Cinecolor process. That animation was then still a pretty young field-Max and Dave Fleischer were leaders in animation production, giving Walt Disney his first real competition-the insane amount of technical prowess that went into making Poor Cinderella (produced by Max, directed by Dave) reveals it to be all the more impressive. If it came out in 2016 let alone 1934, Poor Cinderella would be considered an absolute masterpiece. Although in the 1980s several Betty Boop cartoons were colorized-quite sloppily I might add-of her “classic era” it was just Poor Cinderella that was actually planned from the start to be a color film. He also made one appearance without Betty, in the aforementioned Christmas Comes But Once a Year.Of all the 110 Betty Boop shorts made by the Fleischer Studios between 19 (she was also seen in many of the Fleischer brothers’ earlier “Talkartoons”) only one of them- Poor Cinderella-was made in color. Grampy appeared in nine of the later Betty Boop cartoons in the mid-1930s, often having a larger role than Betty. The Fleischer Studios credits Popeye voice actor Jack Mercer, while the character's article on Don Markstein's Toonopedia indicated that standard reference sources didn't name Grampy's voice actor, aside from some isolated mentions crediting Everett Clark for the role. The identity of Grampy's voice actor has been subject to debate. However, in The Impractical Joker, he lives in an upper floor. ![]() In some cartoons like Betty Boop and Grampy and House Cleaning Blues, he and Betty live in separate houses. There is also some inconsistency as to living arrangements. It is not clear whether Grampy is related to Betty Boop, because everyone calls him "Grampy" and he seems to be equally affectionate to almost everyone he meets. The character was possibly based upon Max's brother, Charles, an inventor, one of whose creations was the clawing device that (in 2021) is still omnipresent in arcades and standalone toys. In short order, the lightbulb lights up as Grampy exclaims, "Hooray, I've got it!" and builds a new gadget to solve the problem. When presented with an unexpected problem, he puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top). His primary activities include singing, dancing and building Rube Goldberg-esque devices out of ordinary household items. One author speculates that the character's design may suggest he is Ko-Ko the Clown in retirement. Grampy is an ever-cheerful and energetic senior citizen with a bald, dome-shaped head, white beard, and black nose (depicted with a red nose in color productions). He had a starring role in the "Color Classic" Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936). He appeared in nine of the later Betty Boop cartoons beginning with Betty Boop and Grampy (1935). Professor Grampy is an animated cartoon character appearing in the Betty Boop series of shorts produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures. Grampy and his "thinking cap", in a scene from the Betty Boop cartoon House Cleaning Blues (1937). ![]()
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