Max Fleischer's cartoon studio made a couple of these…films which reused footage from earlier cartoons. This one's called Betty Boop's Rise to Fame and the live-action footage shot for it gives us a chance to see Max himself, acting and pretending to be drawing cartoons. This one came out on May 18, 1934, which was around the peak of Ms. Boop's popularity. You get to see her imitate Maurice Chevalier — which, as the Marx Brothers learned, was something you had to do if you were in a film released by Paramount back then — and do a hula dance that would be condsidered naughty today…so one can only imagine what they made of it in the early thirties. Not a bad little cartoon…
