Poor Cinderella
Poor Cinderella | |
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Color Classics (Betty Boop) series | |
Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
Produced by | Max Fleischer |
Voices by | Mae Questel |
Music by | Murray Mencher Jack Scholl Charles Tobias |
Animation by | Seymour Kneitel Roland Crandall William Henning |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date(s) | August 3, 1934 |
Color process | Cinecolor |
Running time | 10 mins |
Language | English |
Poor Cinderella is a 1934 Fleischer Studio animated short film featuring Betty Boop. The first entry in the Color Classics series, Poor Cinderella was Fleischer Studio's first color film, and the only appearance of Betty Boop in color during the Fleischer era.
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Synopsis
In this retelling of the Cinderella story, Betty is the title character, a poor young woman forced to be the virtual slave of her two ugly stepsisters. Betty/Cinderella is visited by her fairy godmother, who grants her wish to attend the prince's ball, giving her beautiful clothes, a carriage, and the traditional glass slippers. During the ball, the prince descends the staircase in royal fashion when he stops and notices Betty standing in the entrance, and Cupid uses a hammer to smack him down the stair to her. The two have a wonderful time dancing together, but when midnight strikes, she rushes out of the ball, leaving behind her shoe. The prince searches the land for the woman whose foot fits the slipper, and finds his "poor Cinderella." The two are married, and the ugly stepsisters are left to argue with each other until the end title's doors smack their heads together.
Background
The short was made in the two-strip Cinecolor process, because Walt Disney had exclusive rights to the new 3-strip Technicolor process from 1932 to 1935. Betty's hair was colored red to take advantage of this. The short also used Fleischer Studio's Rotograph process, in order to provide some scenes with additional depth of field. Along with many of the other Color Classics, Poor Cinderella is today in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the Internet Archive, among other locations.
Rudy Vallee appears in caricature, singing the title song during the ball sequence and was second singer to appear in a cartoon (the first was Paul Whiteman who was caricatured in two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons).
See also
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Poor Cinderella at IMDb
- Poor Cinderella at the Big Cartoon Database
- Poor Cinderella is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Poor Cinderella on YouTube
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