| Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions | |
| Director: | Dave Fleischer |
| Animator: | Ugo D'Orsi Willard Bowsky Bernard Wolf |
| Starring: | Mae Questel (Betty Boop) Billy Murray (Bimbo) |
| Music: | Samuel Lerner Sammy Timberg |
| Producer: | Max Fleischer |
| Studio: | Fleischer Studios |
| Distributor: | Paramount Publix Corporation |
| Country: | United States |
| Color Process: | Black-and-white |
| Runtime: | 7 minutes |
| Language: | English |
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film, featuring Betty Boop.[1]
This cartoon was first theatrically released with the Mae West film She Done Him Wrong.
At the inventor's show, Betty, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown demonstrate a variety of gadgets, including:
When the automated sewing machine gets out of control and proceeds to sew various things together, Bimbo and Betty escape via an umbrella that turns into a helicopter.
Assisted by ticket-taker Bimbo the Dog and product-demonstrator Koko the Clown, Betty Boop stages a "Big Invention Show". Highlights of the program include a pig-powered pipe organ, a Rube Goldberg-style spot remover, a cigarette snuffer, a soup silencer, a sweet-corn regulator, and an egg-frying device, replete with optional hen and rooster. Betty herself demonstrates a most unusual voice recorder with a performance of "Keep a Little Song Handy". The show's number-one attraction, a very powerful self-threading sewing machine, knits up the proceedings quite nicely. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviA message from "CCTheMovieman" rated it 5 stars. "This was my first look in over 40 years at a Betty Boop cartoon.....and I was impressed. It was pretty funny and very "inventive", pun intended. This really wasn't her style, either, as I have since discovered (singing and dancing was her forte.)"[2]