Snow White (1933)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Snow white |
| Original title | Snow white |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dave Fleischer |
| production | Max Fleischer |
| music |
Samuel Lerner George Steiner Sammy Timberg |
Snow White is a 1933 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer . It was the 43rd cartoon in the Betty Boop film series.
action
The queen can be confirmed by the magic mirror that she is the most beautiful in the whole country. Betty Boop appears to visit her stepmother and the Zauberspiegel now names her the most beautiful in the country. The queen demands the beheading of Betty Boop, who is to be executed by the dog Bimbo and the clown Koko . They both bring Betty Boop into the woods and tie her to a tree. They prepare for execution, but completely destroy their tools on the grindstone. The grindstone and straightening block both sink into a hole in the ground into which they ultimately fall themselves. Betty Boop is freed from the tree itself, but falls into the snow, rolls off as a large snowball and ends up trapped in a snow coffin in a river shortly afterwards. The snow freezes and leaves them in an ice coffin that ends up in the home of the seven dwarfs. The dwarfs transport Betty Boop in a block of ice into a magical cave.
The queen has meanwhile transformed into a witch with the help of the mirror. She realizes that Betty Boop is not dead and goes into the magical cave. She is followed by Bimbo and Koko, with Koko beginning to sing St. James Infirmary . The witch turns him into a ghost with the help of the mirror. When Koko has sung the song to the end, the witch turns him into ice, just as Bimbo turns into ice. The witch becomes queen again, who asks her mirror again about the most beautiful in the country. The mirror explodes and transforms the queen into a dragon-like monster; Betty Boop, Bimbo and Koko regain their original shape and are hunted by the monster. In the end, Bimbo manages to grab the monster's tongue and turn the being inside out. The skeleton monster flees and Betty Boop, Bimbo and Koko dance in the snow.
production
Snow White was animated by Roland Crandall ; working on the film took about half a year. Betty Boop and the Queen are originally voiced by Mae Questel , while Koko's vocals are from Cab Calloway . After the talk cartoon Minnie the Moocher (1932) it was the second meeting of Betty Boop and Cab Calloway; a third time both came together in the film Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934). A special feature of Snow White was that Cab Calloway's dance was rotoscoped onto Koko's dance at St. James Infirmary .
Snow White is considered to be "cartoon noir" with clear references to the underworld, which in the film is not only represented by the magical cave, but also by the song St. James Infirmary . The film plays with metamorphoses and contains black humor. The provocative Betty Boop is presented as the innocent Snow White, while the Queen has features of Popeye's wife Olivia (in the original Olive Oyl). Blackfacing is used for the queen's mirror . The racist note, which is reinforced by the mirror's status as the Queen's “slave”, is partially canceled out by Cab Calloway's appearance in the film.
Snow White was released in US cinemas on March 31, 1933. In Germany, the film was released on various Betty Boop compilation DVDs, including a colored version.
Awards
Snow White was included in the National Film Registry in 1994 as being particularly worth preserving .
Web links
- Snow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Brenna and Megaera Lorenz: Betty Boop in Snow White . heptupe.com, September 8, 1999.