Betty Boop Exhibit in Burbank, CA

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Hello

I'm the Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive in Burbank, CA. We currently have an exhibit of original animation drawings from the Fleischer studios on display. Included are Grim Natwick's original character design sketches for Dizzy Dishes, Barnacle Bill the Sailor, The Bum Bandit, and Accordian Joe. There's also a studio gag drawing with Betty from Mysterious Mose, drawings by Willard Bowsky and an original Betty Boop turnaround model sheet.

If you are in the Los Angeles area, please stop by during our office hours (Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm to 9pm) and see what we are doing. ASIFA-Hollywood is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the art of animation and the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive is one of our most exciting projects. We are in the process of building a museum, library and archive devoted to the art of animation. You can read more about it at our blog http://www.animationarchive.org/.

One of our volunteers shot a few photographs of our exhibit. I'll try to post them here later this week.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

[mgchan]

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to seeing the photos. If you encounter a problem with posting them, send them to me at mchan@hearst.com.

[bettyboopfan]

I can't wait to see the photos!!

[RositaluvsBetty]

Hello

I'm the Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive in Burbank, CA. We currently have an exhibit of original animation drawings from the Fleischer studios on display. Included are Grim Natwick's original character design sketches for Dizzy Dishes, Barnacle Bill the Sailor, The Bum Bandit, and Accordian Joe. There's also a studio gag drawing with Betty from Mysterious Mose, drawings by Willard Bowsky and an original Betty Boop turnaround model sheet.

If you are in the Los Angeles area, please stop by during our office hours (Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm to 9pm) and see what we are doing. ASIFA-Hollywood is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the art of animation and the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive is one of our most exciting projects. We are in the process of building a museum, library and archive devoted to the art of animation. You can read more about it at our blog http://www.animationarchive.org/.

One of our volunteers shot a few photographs of our exhibit. I'll try to post them here later this week.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

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This is a studio gag drawing done by Grim Natwick around the time of the making of Mysterious Mose.

When Grim Natwick created Betty Boop, most cartoons were populated with simple mice and cats constructed with circles. No one else in animation at the time would have dared try to animate a pretty girl. But for Grim, it was only natural, because he liked pretty girls! Grim was a classically trained artist. He studied in Vienna and was an accomplished illustrator before he became an animator. So he was able to animate Betty convincingly better than anyone else in the business.

For the first couple of films, Grim handled all of the girl scenes himself, but Dave Fleischer wanted to use her in more scenes than Grim could keep up with animating. So Dave started handing out scenes (and whole films) to other artists. However, the rest of the staff didn't have the drawing chops that Grim had, and they had a very rough time keeping Betty cute. There's nothing more difficult than animating a pretty girl... one line askew and she's not pretty any more.

This gag sketch depicts a Betty drawn by Grim asking a Betty drawn by animator Rudolf Eggeman "What's wrong?" Eggeman animated some of the really crude early Betty Boops in the Screen Song series (like Little Annie Rooney and Betty Coed) and Grim was teasing him in this drawing about his sloppiness. Grim told me that it was common at the studios to make fun of your coworkers by sneaking a gag drawing up onto a bulletin board while no one was looking. The animator being made fun of would discover it and do a drawing making fun of someone else and sneak it up on the board next to it. The gags would pile up until the end of the day when the board would be covered with funny doodles. They'd clear the board off and start all over again the next day. This is one of those studio gag drawings.

I'll try to get photos of a couple of other pieces in the exhibit soon.

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
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[BBooper]

great picture! thanks for the info too!!! can't wait to see more!!

BBooper
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[bettyboopfan]

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