The Betty Boop Image

WE’VE recently discovered just how popular Betty Boop is to Web surfers. Realizing how many Ms. Boop fans we have visiting Pooler-Georgia-HOMEPAGE, we figured you'd appreciate a huge image galley with resource links to her history and current status as a cartoon super-star!..

Are you ready to re-discover the first animated female personality with genuine overt sexual appeal?…

Betty made her first appearance on August 9, 1930 in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes, the sixth installment in Fleischer's Talkartoon series.

Ms. Boop is noteworthy for being the first cartoon character to fully represent a sexual woman. Other female characters of the same period showed their panties regularly, like Minnie Mouse, but didn't have a full caricature of a woman's form. Betty, however - reveled in her sexuality.

The Production Code censorship laws enforced beginning in 1934 forced her to wear a longer skirt and less revealing neckline. Betty's sex appeal would be suppressed.

Betty's series continues to be a favorite of many critics. The 1933 Betty Boop cartoon Snow White (not Disney's 1937 film Snow White) was selected for preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress in the National Film Registry in 1994.

Betty appeared for the first time in years, with a cameo in the Academy Award-winning film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” - in 1988. It was widely reported that the animators had slipped in one frame of Betty nude, invisible to the audience, of course. If such a frame existed, it was replaced by a conventional frame once the movie came out on home video.

For a complete story of Betty’s evolution over the decades, be sure to check out Wikipedia’s article. This Web page has an impressive list of resource links - taking you to other sites with loads of information and even some public domain images and cartoon clips.

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The Betty Boop Image Gallery

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