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Snow White (1933)
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This 1933 Betty Boop short is a very, very loose adaptation of the original tale of Snow White, not to be confused with the Disney version. During wintertime, Betty visits her step-mother the queen, with the two guards Koko The Clown and Bimbo the Dog being instantly smitten by her. After the queen is told by her Magic Mirror that Betty is the fairest in the land, she orders her beheaded. However, Bimbo and Koko are too infatuated to comply with this order and fall down the hole that was intended for her-as Betty escapes and gets frozen in an ice block in the process, with the seven dwarfs carrying her away. The rest of the short is centered around Koko and Bimbo as they try to save her.This short is in the public domain and can be viewed here.On a side note, this short was something of a one man show-the only animator on this short was dedicated Fleischer employee Roland "Doc" Crandall, as a reward for his years of hard work at the studio. It took Crandall just six months to complete the seven-minute short. | |
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Fairest of Them All | |
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Fairest of Them All: Like the original tale, the queen is obsessed with being the "fairest in the land" and as soon as Betty shows up and her magic mirror unsurprisingly gives Betty the title, the Queen does not respond well. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: Downplayed. The Queen sings the line "Magic mirror in my hand, who's the fairest in the land?" at two different points in the short. The melody is very upbeat for a villain song. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: When the Queen asks the mirror who's the fairest in the land one last time, it tells her that she is... but right after that, the mirror blows a raspberry at her and inexplicably explodes into smoke, which turns Bimbo and Koko back to normal, but turns the Queen into a bizarre dragon-like creature. Maybe the mirror decided to give her A Taste Of Her Own Medicine after witnessing what she did to Koko and Bimbo? | |
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Public Domain Animation | |
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Public Domain Animation: The short has entered the public domain and can be freely shared by anyone. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: When glaring at Betty, The Evil Queen pokes her head through the magic mirror, catching her wig. | |
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God Save Us from the Queen! | |
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God Save Us from the Queen!: Fitting the fairy tale it's based upon, the Big Bad of the short is a vain queen obsessed with being "the fairest in the land". | |
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Human Snowball | |
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Human Snowball: Betty rolls down the mountain as one and after the snowball is frozen and reshaped, it becomes her glass coffin. | |
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Harmless Freezing | |
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Harmless Freezing: Betty falls into an icy lake and comes out trapped in a block of ice shaped like a coffin. However, she keeps opening her eyes while inside, implying that she's fine even though the dwarves seem to think she's dead. The magic mirror's spell just before the climax releases her from the ice coffin, and she's no worse for wear. | |
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Adaptational Ugliness | |
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Adaptational Ugliness: In most versions of Snow White The Queen is quite attractive, here though she has a large nose, is as skinny as Olive Oyl, wears a wig covering her bald head and in some close up shots, a buck tooth and facial wrinkles. | |
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Mook–Face Turn | |
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Mook–Face Turn: Bimbo and Koko immediately notice how beautiful Betty is, and are swayed into refusing to execute her by her sobs and pleas. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Bimbo defeats the Evil Queen (or the dragon-creature she was turned into) by turning her inside out. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: OFF WITH HER HEAD! For being prettier than the queen. | |
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Creepy Jazz Music | |
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Creepy Jazz Music: When Snow White (Betty Boop) is seemingly killed by the witch, Calloway (as Koko the Clown) sings a haunting rendition of "Saint James Infirmary", while the witch transforms Koko into a weird ghost-like monster. | |
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Magic Mirror | |
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Magic Mirror: The Queen's hand mirror. It comes to life when the Queen talks to it. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: The magic mirror, which is usually depicted as a large wall mirror, is a hand mirror in this version. This enables the Queen to carry it with her because, in this version, she uses the mirror to put spells on the heroes. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Expressive Mask: While sharpening the axe that was suppose to execute Betty, Koko's knight helmet is shown with a moving mouth and crying eyes. | |
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Everything Talks | |
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Everything Talks: As usual in Betty Boop's cartoons everything from the mirror, the icicles, a tree and a tree stump all come alive. | |
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Circling Birdies | |
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Circling Birdies: Upon landing after falling into the hole, Bimbo and Koko have circling stars around their heads which turn into Betty Boop heads. | |
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Puddle-Covering Chivalry | |
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Puddle-Covering Chivalry: Bimbo and Koko put down a sheet and Bimbo's long johns for Betty to walk over when she first arrives at the castle, despite the fact that there was no visible puddle. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: It doesn't really have a definitive end. Bimbo turns the dragon-queen inside out, causing her to run away, and he, Betty, and Koko celebrate the queen's defeat in the snow. But the three are likely miles away from the castle in the blistering cold, and the queen is still alive and stuck as a dangerous monster (albeit inside out). And yet, the short just... ends. | |
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Creepy Cave | |
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Creepy Cave: The Mystery Cave that the dwarves carry Snow White through has creepy skeletal fish flying around, and a nightmarish background reflecting the lyrics of "Saint James Infirmary". | |
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Paper Tiger | |
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Paper Tiger: The Queen's fire-breathing dragon form looks scary, but Bimbo handily beats her by grabbing her tongue and turning her inside-out. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: After her Meaningless Villain Victory that causes her to be turned into an ugly dragon immediately after being declared the fairest in the land, the Queen chases Betty, Bimbo, and Koko, seemingly trying to eat them. This may be justified because, since she was turned into a dragon that doesn't speak or show any other signs of sentience, she may have lost her sentience and just went after them purely on instinct. | |
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Exposed to the Elements | |
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Exposed to the Elements: Despite the snowy weather, Betty still wears her short skirted flapper dress and never shows any signs of being cold. | |
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Random Events Plot | |
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Random Events Plot: Despite hitting some of the usual story beats, this is a very loose adaptation of the fairy tale. The characters go all over the place and are transformed into monsters, with the Queen herself getting transformed into a dragon by her own mirror, for no real reason. The Queen's head also randomly turns into a frying pan roasting eggs at one point. And it wasn't the mirror's doing, either. Her head just... turned into a frying pan with eggs on it. | |
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Scaled Up | |
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Scaled Up: Near the end of the short, the Magic Mirror turns the Queen into a monstrous dragon who proceeds to chase Betty, Bimbo and Koko. | |
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Meaningless Villain Victory | |
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Meaningless Villain Victory: The Queen successfully gets rid of Betty, Koko, and Bimbo, and her magic mirror tells her that she, the Queen, is now the fairest in the land. The mirror then explodes, casting a spell that revives the heroes and turns the Queen into a dragon. There's nothing left for the Queen to do but chase the heroes furiously. | |
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Favors for the Sexy | |
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Favors for the Sexy: When Betty walks into her step-mothers castle, the curtains open themselves for her, the two guards throw both sheets and their clothes on the floor for her to walk on and a mouse tips his hat to her. | |
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Rotoscoping | |
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Rotoscoping: Koko's dancing was accomplished by rotosoping Cab Calloway singing and dancing. | |
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Wicked Stepmother | |
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Wicked Stepmother: The Queen is this to Betty. | |
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Melancholy Musical Number | |
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Melancholy Musical Number: "St. James Infirmary." Koko sings it to express his sadness at Betty's apparent death. It's an old blues song about a lost loved one that existed years before this cartoon. | |
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Forced Transformation | |
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Forced Transformation: Several. The Queen uses the mirror to turn Koko into a long-legged, ghost-like being, then Bimbo into a bizarre, head bust-like object. In the scene where the mirror inexplicably explodes into smoke, the smoke turns the Queen into a feral, dragon-like monster. | |
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White Gloves | |
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White Gloves: Dragon!Queen wears them on her hands and feet despite the fact she wasn't wearing gloves on her hands (let alone on her feet) at any point during the short when she was human. | |
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Composite Character: Koko and Bimbo take the roles of both the huntsmen who are forced to kill Snow White and Prince Charming (more or less) | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The Queen looks and sounds very much like Olive Oyl, who also appeared in Fleischer Studios cartoons at the time of this short. | |
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Witch Classic | |
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Witch Classic: At one point, the Queen turns herself into a traditional-looking witch and rides her magic mirror like a broomstick. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: One interpretation of the ending is that the mirror got sick of the Queen haranguing him and using its powers for evil purposes, choosing to give her a form that matched her evil and to reverse the Forced Transformation she put on Bimbo and Koko. | |
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