House Cleaning Blues

House Cleaning Blues
Directed byDave Fleischer
Produced byMax Fleischer
StarringMae Questel
(Betty Boop)
Everett Clark (Grampy)[1][2]
Jack Mercer (Roosters)[3]
Music bySammy Timberg
Animation byDavid Tendlar
Eli Brucker
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • January 15, 1937 (1937-01-15)
Running time
7 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.[4]

Synopsis

Betty wakes up in the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shamble, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy.

Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain).

Notes

  • This is the first episode in which Betty doesn't have a separated layer of her hair shown.

References

  1. ^ Komorowski, Thad (15 September 2014). "Fleischer Promo Art #16: "Betty Slays 'Em!"". Cartoon Research.
  2. ^ a b Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  3. ^ "House Cleaning Blues (1937)". YouTube: Screen Prisms. 1 June 2024.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.


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