House Cleaning Blues
House Cleaning Blues | |
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Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
Produced by | Max Fleischer |
Starring | Mae Questel (as Betty Boop-uncredited) Jack Mercer (as Grampy-uncredited) |
Music by | Sammy Timberg |
Animation by | David Tendlar |
Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | January 17, 1937 |
Running time | 6 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.[1]
Synopsis[]
Betty wakes up in the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shamble, 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).
Notes[]
- This is the first episode in which Betty doesn't have a separated layer of her hair shown.
References[]
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
External links[]
- House Cleaning Blues on Youtube.
- House Cleaning Blues at The Big Cartoon DataBase
- House Cleaning Blues at IMDb
- English-language films
- 1937 films
- American animated short films
- American films
- Betty Boop cartoons
- 1930s American animated films
- American black-and-white films
- 1937 animated films
- Paramount Pictures short films
- Fleischer Studios short films
- Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
- Betty Boop cartoon stubs