Betty Boop, the saucy cartoon flapper who debuted nearly a century ago, is about to lose her copyright protection—at least in ...
In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time. Fleischer’s ...
Until several months ago, I couldn’t recall the last time I saw, or thought about, 1930s cartoon icon Betty Boop, the flapper with the “little girl voice” and sporting a “spit-curls” hairdo, short ...
Performances in N.Y.C. From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop! Credit ...