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Baby Be Good (1935)

1935 · Animation · 7 min · dir. Dave Fleischer

  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Family
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Synopsis

Betty Boop tries to get Little Jimmy to bed, but he's being a bad little boy indeed. He unbuttons his sleeper, forcing Betty to re-button it. And after Betty turns off the ceiling lamp, Little Jimmy jumps up on his bed and turns it back on again. Once Betty thinks she finally has Jimmy to sleep, she finds him painting stripes on the cat with toothpaste. Jimmy begs Betty to tell him a story, and she does so with an eye toward teaching him a lesson. It's about a mischievous little boy, much like Jimmy, watched over by a fairy, who is much like Betty. He ties a tin can on a little dog's tail; he throws bricks at a glass house; and he clips off the shaving-brush-like hair of the local barber as he sleeps. But the boy goes too far when he taunts a lion, who escapes from his cage and chases him. The kindly fairy gives the boy a chance to reverse everything he does. Literally. Suddenly, everything he has done is played in reverse, leaving a content barber, an untouched glass house and a happy little pooch.

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Details

Director
Dave Fleischer
Studio
Fleischer Studios
Released
1935-01-18
Running time
7 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Film Chest Vintage Cartoons, Animation & Cartoons

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Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · Dark moon = Wrong ^_^ · BoopBoopaddoop · 2009-10-08

This gets a 4 Stars <3 Betty Boop is babysitting her nephew junior! he is being a bad boy and wont go to bed, so betty tells him a story which he defiantly belives Dark moon you cannot say that an infant wouldnt belive becuse its a cartoon these characters are not real, the studios who produced these cartoons could have done whatever storyline they had wished. just becuse the pre hays code had came in doesnt mean betty boop should be all about sex, sex and more sex... i think its great that they tamed betty boop i liked her past days as a vaudiville singer, but come on now like if she could…

★★ · Preachy · Dark Moon · 2010-01-05

Post-Hays code, some Fleischer cartoons began to "take the moral high-ground," and attempted to show children the consequences of misbehavior. This trend is especially to be seen in many of the Color Classics, but they had the Boopster doing it too, in a few episodes like this one. I do not much enjoy preachy cartoons; for me, they take on an aspect of propaganda. While many of them threaten ridiculous consequences that an infant wouldn't believe, this one, at least, has a valid message: If you antagonize enough people, eventually one of them will bite back. Two stars (instead of one), for…

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