For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.
- Directors
- Stars
Billy Murray
- Bimbo
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Betty Boop
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Dave Tendlar(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBetty Boop appears dressed very scantily in this risqué short. Starting the next year, 1934, the Hays Office began cracking down on cartoon shorts, resulting in Betty's transformation into a more subdued, modest character.
- GoofsThere is no obvious reason why a jungle hut on a tropical island would have an active fireplace.
- Alternate versions20th-century television and VHS editions often made the following cuts, to excise the more risque and politically incorrect gags:
- Professor Bimbo's flashing neon sign is edited to eliminate a mildly obscene hand gesture.
- When the modestly dressed Betty enters the fortune telling studio, Bimbo and Koko shine a light on her to turn her skirt transparent, and she starts to dance like Little Egypt. The cut to this part also resulted in the loss of the "walk this way" gag.
- The crystal ball's "memory" of Betty as a nude infant is left out.
- When Betty washes up on the island, a hand-shaped wave grabs her ass and she tells it to "keep your hands to you". Then when she is putting her clothes out to dry, a turtle runs off with her dress. Left in her bra and girdle, she fashions a hula-girl bikini from palm fronds, and starts singing Irving Berlin's "All By Myself". The cut version jumps from her landing on shore fully clothed, to the first line of her song, making her costume change inexplicable.
- When the ghosts first appear, the cut omits the last one, a "Jewish moneylender" caricature.
- ConnectionsEdited into RCN TV Halloween Horror Movie Marathon: The Screaming Sulk (2017)
- SoundtracksBetty Boop
(uncredited)
Music by Johnny Green
Lyrics by Edward Heyman
Sung during the opening credits
Played again when Betty pulls the cat's tail and Koko answers the door
Played again when Betty enters the elevator
Featured review
Another Wild Pre-Code Betty Boop
Puns, clever sight gags, a few risqué shots, some really old-fashioned Rudy Valley-type song, and just a generally wild story highlight this pre-Code Betty Boop.
I've noticed that in the early days of animation, the writers and artists really loved to make inanimate objects come alive. They would have fire, water, smoke, etc., all have hands that would appear and do something. Here, the waves on the ocean turn into big hands and dump a big steamship upside and drop the people in the water. Then the boat would be upright again and smoke rings from the two big stacks would turn into giant life rafts for the people. Betty would get washed ashore and "fingers" from the water would claw the sand or slap Bette on the behind! Later, we see smoke from a chimney spell out the word, "smoke." These kind of things are seen every few seconds in this cartoon. That kind of sight gag is still used today but not as much as in the '20s and '30s. You also didn't see naked women, either, but Bette would bare herself here and there before the censors would make her keep her clothes on by 1934.
What also marked Betty Boop as a different were the songs that would be inserted into the stories, even if they were very short as they are in this one. Betty (Mae Questel) was quite the singer and dancer!
There really isn't a much of a story to this one, just wild scenes, one after the other, but it's certainly entertaining! KoKo The Clown, from a silent decade earlier, and Bimbo the dog, make "guest appearances."
I've noticed that in the early days of animation, the writers and artists really loved to make inanimate objects come alive. They would have fire, water, smoke, etc., all have hands that would appear and do something. Here, the waves on the ocean turn into big hands and dump a big steamship upside and drop the people in the water. Then the boat would be upright again and smoke rings from the two big stacks would turn into giant life rafts for the people. Betty would get washed ashore and "fingers" from the water would claw the sand or slap Bette on the behind! Later, we see smoke from a chimney spell out the word, "smoke." These kind of things are seen every few seconds in this cartoon. That kind of sight gag is still used today but not as much as in the '20s and '30s. You also didn't see naked women, either, but Bette would bare herself here and there before the censors would make her keep her clothes on by 1934.
What also marked Betty Boop as a different were the songs that would be inserted into the stories, even if they were very short as they are in this one. Betty (Mae Questel) was quite the singer and dancer!
There really isn't a much of a story to this one, just wild scenes, one after the other, but it's certainly entertaining! KoKo The Clown, from a silent decade earlier, and Bimbo the dog, make "guest appearances."
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- Oct 26, 2007
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- Runtime5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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