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Talkartoons is the name of a series of 42 animated cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1932. It is a sister series to the Fleischer's successful Screen Songs cartoons. Betty Boop got her start in this series, which quickly made her the star of them and, circa 1932, became Betty's own standalone series altogether.A quick history of the series can be found on this article, courtesy of The Other Wiki.
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Construction Is Awesome: Demonstrated in "Sky Scraping".
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Carnivore Confusion
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Carnivore Confusion: Humanlike spiders who want to eat the equally humanlike flies in "Wise Flies".
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The Everyman
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The Everyman: Bimbo, of course.
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Extreme Omnivore
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Extreme Omnivore: The customer in "Dizzy Dishes" waiting for his roast duck ends up eating his plate and cutlery and even one of the table legs.
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Animation Bump
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Animation Bump: Some parts of the shorts would feature backgrounds that were animated in perspective, a fairly challenging feat to do for an animator. A scene from "The Bum Bandit", where several different backgrounds were used to create a successive first-person zoom-up shot to a gun-wielding Bimbo. Any scene from the 1930-31 shorts animated by Grim Natwick, typically identifiable through their distorted, 'jittering' motion (allegedly attributable to Natwick 'stretching' the designs of the characters in consecutively-different directions in between key poses), which incongruously amounts to some of the most fluid and 'spontaneous' animation in the entire Fleischer catalogue.
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Squirrels in My Pants
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Snakes in My Pants: Happens to Noah in "Noah's Lark".
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Rotoscoping
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Rotoscoping: Used in "The Cow's Husband", "Minnie the Moocher" and "Crazy Town".
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Mickey Mousing
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Mickey Mousing: Prevalent, as it was in early sound cartoons.
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Split Hair
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Split Hair: Inverted in "Dizzy Dishes", where the tip of Bimbo's knife is sliced off by the hair.
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Weirdness Magnet
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Weirdness Magnet: Poor Bimbo.
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Anthropomorphic Shift
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Betty Boop too, going through an Anthropomorphic Shift.
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: "Swing You Sinners!" and "Up to Mars".
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Breakout Character
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Breakout Character: Betty Boop, who eventually got her own series.
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Art Evolution
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Art Evolution: The earliest shorts had a stiff, newspaper comic-esque aesthetic (accentuated by their lack of gray tones) to the animation (presumably due to the aforementioned shorts being among the final Fleischer shorts to utilize the paper-cutout animation process utilized throughout the Out of the Inkwell cartoons, as well as the first Screen Songs). This was immediately done away with as soon as the studio converted to cel animation and got Grim Natwick on board the staff, who helped beef up the animation of the Fleischer cartoons considerably. Bimbo went through multiple redesigns until settling on being a cute, big-eyed dog with a sweatshirt and shoes. Betty Boop too, going through an Anthropomorphic Shift.
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Expy
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Expy: Bimbo is an expy of the earlier Max Fleischer cartoon dog Fitz, from Out of the Inkwell.
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Running Gag: "Grand Uproar" had a fat hippo moving his way through the theater seats and knocking a patron out of his seat at the end of the row. The third time around, the annoyed patron pulls out a fold-up chair and sits in the aisle.
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