The Return of Betty Boop

Make room on your DVD shelf. Betty, Grampy, Pudgy and the whole gang are back with a new Blu-Ray courtesy of Steve Stanchfield of Thunderbean Animation. A few years ago Olive produced a series of four DVDs and Blu-Ray releases containing Betty Boop cartoons from the 1930s, restored from archival elements. Regrettably, those four releases were not complete. Fans of Betty Boop cartoons even petitioned for Olive to release additional volumes, but nothing met fruition. Flash forward to today where Thunderbean has released a Blu-Ray titled The Other Betty Boop Cartoons, Volume One, with 18 additional cartoons remastered from archival prints. Obviously, the title is in reference to cartoons not found in those Olive releases, thus titled The Essential Collection. Fans can rejoice, too, for the fact that a volume two is also in the works.

All of the cartoons were scanned from original 35mm and 16mm prints, many available foe the first time in High Definition. The Library of Congress logo is featured on the back of the case, indicating the source material for some of the archival masters. Included among the 18 cartoons is the thought-lost "Honest Love and True," recently discovered and available now for the first time. In that film short, Betty works at a saloon in the Klondike. Until 2017, that cartoon was considered "lost" but UCLA found a print, albeit with no audio. The cartoon would ultimately be restored and screened at the UCLA's Festival of Preservation. That very cartoon is included in this Blu-Ray.

Until 2019, there remained one lost Betty Boop cartoon, "Betty Boop at the Concert," when a print was discovered in Russia and preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive a year later. Fingers crossed, that other "lost" cartoon will be made available in volume two of The Other Betty Boop Cartoons. Thanks to Steve and his friends, this Blu-Ray release brings us one step closer to seeing all of the cartoons digitally restored for future preservation. 

You can purchase a copy here:

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Betty-Boop-Cartoons/dp/B0B1BWZM81/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+other+betty+boop+blu+ray&qid=1653959952&sprefix=the+other+betty+boop%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-1

FOR THOSE WHO WANTED A LIST:

Betty Boop’s Ker-Choo

Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions
Is My Palm Read?
Betty in Blunderland
No! No! 1000 Times No!
Betty Boop and Grampy
Henry, The Funniest Living American
Betty Boop and the Little King
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
Happy You and Merry Me
Grampy’s Indoor Outing
Be Human
House Cleaning Blues
Pudgy Picks a Fight!
Ding Dong Doggie
Honest Love and True
Rhythm on the Reservation
Musical Mountineers