Also in 1931, the Talkartoons The Bum Bandit and Dizzy Red Riding Hood were given distinctly "impure" endings.
The studio's 1931 Christmas card featured Betty in bed with Santa Claus, winking at the viewer. While compromises on Betty's virtue were always a challenge, the animators kept her "pure" and girl-like, on screen, anyway. This suggested the combination of girlishness and maturity many people saw in the "flapper" type which Betty Boop was supposed to represent. She was drawn with a head bigger than normal for an adult, but normal for a baby. There was however, a certain girlish quality to the character. Her "Bamboo Isle" performance was also included in the short Betty Boop's Rise to Fame, featuring a staged quasi-interview with studio head, Max Fleischer. In Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle, she does the hula topless, wearing only a lei and a grass skirt, which she repeated in her cameo appearance in the first Popeye cartoon, Popeye the Sailor (1933). In her cartoons, male characters tried to sneak peeks at her while she's changing, or simply walking along minding her own business.
Her breasts were suggested with a low, contoured bodice that showed cleavage.
Betty Boop wore short dresses, high heels, and a garter belt. Many other cartoon "girls" were merely clones of their male co-stars, with alterations in costume with the addition of eyelashes and a female voice. Other female cartoon characters of the same period, such as Minnie Mouse, displayed their underwear or bloomers regularly, suggesting children or comical characters, not fully defined in a woman's form. Click here to get Discount Betty Boop Halloween Costumeĭiscount BettyBoop Halloween Costume - Betty Boop is important to animation history for being the first cartoon character to fully represent a sexual woman.
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