NEW: June 2007: "Betty Boop" : MikeVideo internet movie created 06/10/07 by Michael F. Nyiri highlighting the original Betty Boop cartoons from the Fleischer Brothers studios in the early 1930s.

"Betty Boop" (10:00 min.) is a 36.1 megabyte windows media file with a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels. It is a MikeVideo Internet Movie created Sunday, June 10, 2007. It is a compliation video showcasing selections from the original Betty Boop cartoons from the decade of the thirties. Consisting of different scenes from roughly twenty Betty Boop catoons made from 1932 to 1934, I have included scenes which showcase the virtuosity of the Fleischer Brothers Studio product of the time, with stunning surrealistic animation, and "special effects' including the rotoscoping of dancing figures. Betty's risque sense of humor, the tendency for her to get herself in trouble, and lose her clothes, and her evocative singing voice are all sampled in the selection utilized for inclusion. I contemplated adding more elaborate editing and transition effects, but opted for a more straightforward presentation of the black and white cartoons themselves, with little "embellishment". The Fleischer's had their own indelible "stamp", 180 degrees away from Disney. While Disney was content to make "children's cartoons", the Fleischers created humorous, satirical adult cartoons with quite a bit of sexual innuendo and imagery.
This marks the first major addition to "The Betty Boop Pages" website in two years, since the last internet movie, "Betty Boop Dreams", was added in 2006. . Like my other MikeVideo movies, I am featuring a feed from my Xanga blog, WhenWordsCollide, and a YouTube feed of the streaming video on my YouTube page.

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This "internet movie" is presented as an art piece, and is not for sale. Betty Boop is a copyrighted image from King Features. No attempt is made to infringe upon copyrighted material. Most of the images in the movie are captures from the VHS videotapes of the complete collection of Betty Boop cartoons. The cartoons are from 1932 to 1934. . MFN 6/10/07

A capture from the internet movie, colorized in the Picture Publisher program.

The composite art featured on this site is only the beginning. One of my dreams was to somehow capture the figurines and dolls as video, and then "composite" backgrounds for them. On the aftenoon of January 14 I created a 3:38 "movie" using the chroma key feature in the video editing software. Like my other MikeVideo movies, I am featuring a YouTube feed of the streaming video on my YouTube page.

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This "internet movie" is presented as an art piece, and is not for sale. Betty Boop is a copyrighted image from King Features. No attempt is made to infringe upon copyrighted material. Most of the images in the movie are photos of Danbury Mint collectible Betty Boop figurines. The backgrounds are MikeVideo videography. One image is used from a copyrighted website, Rita's Betty Boop Site. It is the image of Betty in a nighty on the title card for the video. (above). This is original art drawn by Rita. Most of the images in the still section in the video are my own composites, made with photographs or images from the web, and featured on this website. MFN 1/15/06

Here an elegantly attired Betty goes strolling through her mansion. Betty is a full size Danbury MInt collectible, and the backgounde is one of the furniture rooms in the Getty museum. I added a televison set showing an old cafrtoon, and the image is an actual capture from the cartoon, which is on VHS. Koko is entering the room from the right.

Original Home Page

Composite Artwork

Images from the Cartoons

Images from the Web

The Boop Museum

The Boop Museum Part 2

The Betty Boop Pages website has been online since 1999. The bulk of the original site was completed in 2001, and there are five original pages on the Homestead site. While online, the Homestead site has received over 65,000 hits and is the most popular website in the AllThingsMike Universe. These new pages are being constructed in 2005.

The Betty Boop Pages were never meant to be a history of the Fleischer Brothers cartoons or of the iconic Betty Boop herself.. There are already a plethroa of sites on the internet which serve that purpose.

This site was, and is still, a showcase for my composite art featuring Betty Boop. I have recently begun to "expand the collection", and to concentrate again of Miss Betty Boop and her charms.

Latest news is that I've created my first "MikeVideo Internet Movie" with a Betty Boop theme, "Betty Boop Dreams" which streams from my YouTube site.

So what better time than to completely redesign "The Betty Boop Pages" at AllThingsMike.

MFN 06/11/05 3:13 p.m. pdt

Betty and Betty are out shopping with their twin dogs Bimbo and Bimbette. The mall background is taken from an image search and is cloned as a mirror image with embellishment.

Betty is always ready for a little football. A Danbury Mint Full size collectible doll with a background taken from the web on a search for "stadiums".

Betty Riders scoot through downtown L.A. with the Goodyear blimb in the background and some bouganvilea on the bike path. The clouds are from a separate image, and every thing in the composite is from one of my own photographs.

All "dolled" up for a night on the town. The background started out as a copyrighted photo was taken here from the web, and the complete image "repainted" prior to inserting Betty, who is a full size Danbury Mint Collectible Boop.