{"id":70,"date":"2007-03-19T20:36:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T04:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-09-26T21:02:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T05:02:32","slug":"betty-boop-in-snow-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/betty-boop-in-snow-white\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CARTOON CRYPT: Betty Boop in Snow White (1933)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/headers\/cartooncrypt.gif\" alt=\"THE CARTOON CRYPT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another one of the Fleischer Brothers&#8217; best cartoons&#8230; this one is their (pre-Disney) version of Snow White. It doesn&#8217;t follow the Snow White story closely at all&#8230; not that the Disney one does either&#8230; but in this one the story is a largely ignored framework on which to build some cartoon craziness&#8230; sure, there are some dwarfs in there for about fifteen seconds, a witch and a magic mirror&#8230; there&#8217;s also a dragon with three duck heads on it&#8217;s head.  The highlight is when Koko the Clown is transformed into an eerie spectre singing and dancing Cab Calloway&#8217;s St. James Infirmary&#8230; it may just be me, but besides being funny, I find this scene genuinely chilling as well&#8230; it makes the hair stand up on my neck. Stare in the face of your own mortality in the empty eyes of Koko the Clown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of the Fleischer Brothers&#8217; best cartoons&#8230; this one is their (pre-Disney) version of Snow White. It doesn&#8217;t follow the Snow White story closely at all&#8230; not that the Disney one does either&#8230; but in this one the story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/betty-boop-in-snow-white\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,178,30,26,69,176,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-betty-boop","category-drug-cartoons","category-fleischer-studios","category-movies","category-spooky-cartoons","category-surreal-cartoons","category-cartoon_crypt","category-wonders-and-novelties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}