Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle (1932)
On a south sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer. Stars:The Royal Samoans |
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Storyline
Bimbo visits a south sea isle, where he meets a dusky maiden who does a hot hula and looks a lot like Betty. Also a stereotyped headhunter tribe... The Royal Samoans perform in live-action. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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The Betty Boop cartoons -- or "Talkartoons" were always superior musically to the competition but Disney usually was better in terms of animation. The Fleischer Brothers, however, were always ahead technically, both with sound (in 1924) and here, were the dance numbers are clear animated using rotoscope.