Making Stars
Making Stars | |
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Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
Produced by | Max Fleischer |
Starring | Mae Questel |
Animation by | Herman Cohen Myron Waldman Hicks Lokey Lillian Friedman (uncredited) |
Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | October 18, 1935 |
Running time | 7 mins |
Language | English |
Making Stars is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop.[1] The short contains one of the earliest clear examples of the oriental riff that would become popular as a leitmotif for Asian culture following the release of the 1974 song Kung Fu Fighting.
Synopsis[]
Betty is the MC of "Making Stars", a stage revue introducing the "stars of tomorrow": a series of performing babies. Acts include the Colorful 3 (a trio of stereotyped Black babies singing "Hi De Ho"), an Asian baby marksman, and a bouncing Russian baby named "Little Miss Trotsky."
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[]
- Making Stars on YouTube.
- Making Stars at the Big Cartoon Database.
- Making Stars at IMDb.
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1935 films
- American animated short films
- American films
- Betty Boop cartoons
- 1930s American animated films
- American black-and-white films
- 1935 animated films
- Paramount Pictures short films
- Fleischer Studios short films
- Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
- Ethnic humour
- Animation controversies in film
- Race-related controversies in animation
- Race-related controversies in film
- Betty Boop cartoon stubs