Betty Boop
Title: Betty Boop
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 765 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Betty Boop
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 765 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Betty Boop
The best case study in animation to illustrate the powerful influence society has over the types of films that are produced is the story of Betty Boop. She was a major cartoon character before the Production Code of 1934 was put into place, and her dramatic and fatal transformation illustrates how a product created under one set of standards often withers when placed in a new set. At the same time, the Code alone
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not the selling point of every Boop cartoon. There were plenty of silly entries in which sewing machines sewed up rivers, or the moon put the earth up for auction, or other similarly goofy events occurred. Despite the instances recorded in the previous paragraph, one should not leave with the impression that the Boop cartoons were animated peepshows. Rather, one should realize that in Boop's world, these things were a dark reflection of our society.