Talkartoons
A series of theatrical cartoons exploiting the new technology of sound. Originally one-shot cartoons, the series evolved into a platform for Bimbo and Betty Boop.
Cartoons
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Noah's Lark
Noah seems to have major problems with his animals when they all get restless and leave the ship to go to Coney Island and Luna Park to get away from poor Noah.
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Radio Riot
The Fleischer Studios' zany look at the radio craze, which was very popular during the 1920s and 1930s. The cartoon opens up with a radio frog announcer who almost kills his microphone with…
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Hot Dog
The white-eared, white-faced Bimbo cruises for pretty girls in his roadster. He picks up a reluctant beauty, and is pursued by a cop on horseback. Bimbo is hauled to court, where he pleads…
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Fire Bugs
Bimbo has problems trying to put out a fire that's burning a building to a crisp. First off, Bimbo's horse Sparky stops to dance with an organ grinder, then he tries to save a pianist who k…
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Wise Flies
A male spider can't seem to bring any kind of insects home for his starving wife and kids. The wife tells him that he can't come home without any food, so he sets out to trap an insect once…
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Dizzy Dishes
This early entry in the Talkartoon series is centered on a busy cabaret, and introduced a character modeled after Helen Kane who soon evolved into Betty Boop.
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Barnacle Bill
A talking and walking ship starts one of Betty's earliest screen appearances. She's courted by Barnacle Bill and competes with some sexy dancing mermaids.
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Swing You Sinners!
Fleischer Studios' early sound masterpiece throws sexual teasing completely out the window in favor of creating a serious contender for the Most Morbid Cartoon of All Time! Bimbo has a livi…
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Grand Uproar
Bimbo is the hot dog vendor at an opera led by a Leopold Stokowski-like lion, with plenty of operatic mice. Includes a repeating gag of a hippo coming and going through the seats, displacin…
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Sky Scraping
As work begins on a high-rise building, Bimbo is too lazy, and all he thinks about is getting some sleep. The crazy building structure goes straight into the sky and through the moon.
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Up To Mars
Bimbo is setting off fireworks. A mouse gets in his way, and the two of them get into a dynamite fight, sending Bimbo to Mars. On Mars, Bimbo encounters strange behavior, such as an alien t…
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Accordion Joe
Featuring Bimbo, Woman
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Mysterious Mose
Betty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, as she's awakened by a mysterious form which appears around the house. She sings the title song and meets the gentleman in questio…
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The Ace Of Spades
Because he is low on cash, Bimbo enters a high stakes poker tournament.
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Teacher's Pest
Elementary school-aged Bimbo is late to school, where he presents a note signed "my father" to his leonine bespectacled teacher. Once class gets going, Bimbo slips out to the hall, where he…
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Tree Saps
Bimbo takes on the role of a lumberjack in the north woods. His partner is a slow-moving walrus who, in order to chop down trees, must be given a fish. Towards the end of the picture, a mas…
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The Cow's Husband
A bull sits in his cell crying like a condemned man. He is visited by his four sons but they give him little comfort as one says, "Mommy says she'll get us a new daddy." When the bull is re…
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The Bum Bandit
Bimbo robs a train. It turns out that his wife who he abandoned is on the train (a dog-eared Betty Boop playing Dangerous Nan McGrew, sister of Dangerous Dan McGrew). She gives him his come…
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The Male Man
Bimbo seems to perform all the jobs of the post office, from delivery, to sorting, to canceling. He picks up a letter addressed to Davey Jones. It grows in size as he comes to the shore, an…
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Twenty Legs Under The Sea
Bimbo is a fisherman, and when he gets dragged under the sea, all sea life treats him like a king. Bimbo tricks all the fish out of the water. The fish find out- too late- that Bimbo runs a…
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Silly Scandals
Bimbo is trying to get in to see a theater stage show. Because he has no money, Bimbo tries various dodges to sneak into the theater, and eventually succeeds. A standard set of Fleischer au…
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The Herring Murder Case
Gus Gorilla murders Rudy the Herring with a packed pistol on a dark, cold night. As Gus leaves the scene, horrified onlookers and Koko the Clown pop out of the inkwell to get Bimbo the dete…
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Bimbo's Initiation
Bimbo is put through a madhouse of arcane initiation rites, all the while resisting membership in a mysterious clan of candle-headed bizarros. In a tale ripe for Freudian readings, Bimbo tu…
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Bimbo's Express
Bimbo and his hippo-looking assistant move Betty Boop using a horse-drawn van. Bimbo knocks on the door asking to come in. Betty says, "I can't open the door now, I'm in my nightie." Bimbo…
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Minding The Baby
Bimbo's mom has a spat with her husband and has an affair with the ice man (their ice box is electric). Bimbo is tasked with babysitting his evil little brother while his mom goes shopping.…
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In The Shade Of The Old Apple Sauce
Featuring Bimbo, Koko the Clown
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Mask-a-Raid
Betty Boop is Queen of Masquerade Ball. King of Masquerade Ball is a dirty old letch. Bimbo and the King both have the hots for Betty. She entices them and their factions fight over her. Bi…
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Jack And The Beanstalk
A differently-drawn Bimbo, incensed at trash dropped from the clouds, climbs his beanstalk to find not only the giant, but also his slave (Betty Boop with dog's ears).
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Dizzy Red Riding-Hood
No wolf (even one who brings his own knife and fork) can get the best of Betty. After some opening narration which informs us we're going to see Betty's version of "Little Red Riding Hood,"…
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Any Rags
The rag and bone man passes through Betty's neighborhood.
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Boop-Oop-A-Doop
A Betty Boop flag flies over the big top, inside which animals and animal performers parade before the expectant crowd of animals. One of the other circus attractions is Koko the Clown. Bet…
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The Robot
Bimbo takes Betty Boop on a date in his robot car. After crashing into a tree, Bimbo accepts Betty's request that he fight One-Round Mike for $5,000 before they can be married. Climbing int…
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Minnie The Moocher
The film opens with live-action footage of Cab Calloway's Orchestra. Cab is strutting his famous dance moves. Fed up with her parents' nagging, Betty has a fight with her stern German fathe…
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Swim Or Sink
Swashbuckling high-seas adventure in which shipwrecked castaways Betty, Bimbo and Koko are captured by pirates, but not before they perform a show-stopping song and dance number as they awa…
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Crazy Town
Betty Boop and Bimbo take a streetcar ride to Crazy Town for a little vacation, a city where everything is upside-down: fishes are flying, birds are swimming, mice are roaring, the lions cr…
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The Dancing Fool
Sign painters Bimbo and Koko spend almost half the film horsing around on a scaffold, around and atop a tall building, before getting to business. Bimbo dips- ah, well, an interested append…
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A Hunting We Will Go
Betty is inside her little cabin in the woods, playing a rousing version of the tune "Then I'll Be Happy." Koko and Bimbo rush into Betty's cabin, and in one of the more jarring scenes in a…
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Chess-Nuts
Live-action chess players enjoy a game... and Betty's the queen!
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Hide And Seek
Bad guy I. Grabber sees a girl make a withdrawal from the bank and kidnaps her. They are followed by Bimbo- a motorcycle cop- into a hideout called Hell's Kitchen in a volcano shaped like K…
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Admission Free
Koko and Bimbo visit Betty's penny arcade. Bimbo flirts with Betty, but his turn at the shooting gallery becomes a hunting trip.
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The Betty Boop Limited
The Betty Boop Show train is leaving for the performers' next gig. They rehearse on board, and take their grand finale atop the train cars while traveling along. As usual, Betty sings a sex…
