BETTY BOOP CLOCK MOVIE
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He sings for the first time his famous theme, “I’m Popeye the Sailor Man”, written by Sammy Lerner and Sammy Timberg.

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Popeye emerges from the still photo in full motion, demonstrating his powerful sock upon various fixtures of his ship, including disintegrating a large wall clock into a flock of alarm clocks, and a mounted swordfish into a pile of sardine cans.

BETTY BOOP CLOCK MOVIE

The opening of the film begins with a live-action printing press publishing a late extra announcing Popeye becoming a movie star. The famous sailor man otherwise is “the whole bloomin’ show”. Betty appears only in a dance sequence at a carnival, in animation that seems to be laregely lifted from Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle. Popeye the Sailor (7/14/33) – Almost a Betty Boop cartoon in name only.

It was also cut in England by Jack Hylton on HMV. “Mother Goose Parade” also appears, known mostly from a Paul Whiteman Columbia side from 1928. American recordings were by George Olsen on Victor, and Russ Carlson on Crown. Written by Leslie Sarony, it was recorded in England by Jack Hylton on Decca (with the composer singing the refrain), Sidney Kyte and his Piccadilly Hotel Band on Regal (issued here on Columbia), Tommy Kinsman & His Ciro’s Club Band ( below), and Jay Wilbur on Imperial. “Tom Thumb’s Drum”, a British tune with a few American recordings, is sung by Betty. The song score includes repeat appearances with lyric changes of “Sing You Sinners“ and “Sweepin’ the Clouds Away”, along with many nursery rhymes, and the pop songs “The Woman In the Shoe” and “Bye Bye Blackbird”. The spider from Little Miss Muffet plays the heavy, but winds up taking a dive from a trampoline made of his own web. Lots of the usual rhyme stars cameo, especially the woman in the Shoe and her progeny. Betty hitches a ride to the nursery-rhyme domain, Betty’s house speaks as she goes, “I’ll leep the home fires burning”, then the entire house goes up in smoke. Mother Goose Land (6/28/33) – Betty’s reading of the famous rhymes of Mother Goose prompts the matron to fly off the book cover into Betty’s world.

These puritan brigadiers had it in for Paramount especially, not only for Betty, but for a femme fatale from their live-action star roster who was also causing considerable controversy – Mae West. She would also be seeing her last dalliances with Harlem big bands, which would sometimes come under the criticism of small town exhibitors, who were also beginning to complain about the nature of some of the gags in her cartoons. However, she was about to meet a character that would knock her for a row of spinach cans. As the 1933-34 season began, Betty Boop seemed to be holding her popularity.

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