- Date: March 31, 1933
- Type: Movie
Snow-White, also known as Betty Boop in Snow-White, is a film in the Betty Boop series from Max Fleischer's Fleischer Studios directed in 1933. Dave Fleischer was credited as director, although virtually all the animation was done by Roland Crandall. Crandall received the opportunity to make Snow-White on his own as a reward for his several years of devotion to the Fleischer studio, and the resulting film is considered both his masterwork and an important milestone of The Golden Age of American animation. Snow-White took Crandall six months to complete. A magic mirror, with a face resembling Cab Calloway, proclaims Betty Boop to be "the fairest in the land", much to the anger of the Queen (who resembles Olive Oyl). The Queen orders her guards Bimbo and Koko to behead Betty. With tears in their eyes, they take Betty into the forest and prepare to execute her. Betty escapes into a frozen river, which encloses her in a coffin of ice. This block slips downhill to the home of the seven dwarfs, who carry the frozen Betty into an enchanted cave. Meanwhile, Koko and Bimbo fall down a hole and arrive at the same cave (with the Queen, who turned herself into a Witch), where the evil Queen turns them into grotesque creatures as they sing the St. James Infirmary Blues. With her rivals disposed of, the Queen again asks the magic mirror who the fairest in the land is, but the mirror explodes in a puff of magic smoke that returns Betty and Koko to their normal states and changes the Queen into a hideous monster. The queen monster chases the protagonists until Bimbo grabs its tongue and, with one mighty yank, turns it inside out, leaving the skeleton monster to flee away. Betty, Koko, and Bimbo dance around in a circle of victory as the film ends. --- Made of pen and ink She can win you with a wink (yoo hoo) Ain't she cute? (boop boop be doop) Sweet Betty Magic Mirror in my hand Who's the fairest in the land? You're the fairest in the land You're the fairest in the land I wanna see my step-mama, step-mama, step-mama I wanna see my step-mama, a step-mama the queen I heard about your looking glass, looking glass, looking glass I heard about your looking glass, and what it says is so Magic Mirror in my hand Who's the fairest in the land? You're the fairest in the land You're the fairest in the land Off with her head! What a shame. Poor Betty. Always in the way I can never play My own mama would never stay I'm always in the way Oh, please don't leave me here alone. I don't wanna see. Save me! Save me! Save me! Thank you. Am I the fairest in the place? If I were you I'd hide my face. Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary See my baby there; She's stretched out on a long, white table She's so sweet, so cold, so fair Let it go, let it go, ohh bless her Wherever she may be She can search this whole wide world over But she'll never find another sweet man like me When I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches Put on a box-back coat and a Stetson hat Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat An' give me six crap shooting pall bearers Let a chorus girl sing me a song Put a red hot jazz band at the top of my head So we can raise Hallelujah as we go along Folks, now that you have heard my story Say, boy, hand me another shot of that booze; If anyone should ask you You just tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary blues Magic Mirror in my hand, now who's the fairest in the land? You're the fairest in the land. --- U.M.&M. TV Corp. presents Betty Boop Cartoon Max Fleischer presents Betty Boop in Snow-White Copyright MCMXXXIII by Paramount Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Roland C. Crandall Passed by the National Board of Review Vocal Corus Saint James Infirmary Blues sung by Cab Calloway Betty Boop assisted by Bimbo and Koko Seven Dwarfs Mystery Cave 20, A The End A UM&M TV Corp. presentation