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ReFrederator! Great Directors Week! Dave Fleischer!

So, what we have here is “Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions” (1933) which leads us to an unassailable axiom for animation appreciation: ANY Fleischer cartoon that has ANY thing to do with inventions is worth watching… ANY time. Director Dave and his producer brother Max just had a way with crack brain gadgets, and many of their best films feature mechanical marvels that defy logic and all practicality (they usually treat the laws of physics more like suggestions.) This time around, Betty and her bud Bimbo deal with all sorts of crazy creations, including a sewing machine that could have been imagined by Rod Serling — a common household item that spreads terror and destruction by performing its basic function… way, way too well!

Tomorrow a Jones named Chuck takes over with a jungle story about a great hunter (but YOU have to decide who’s hunting who.)

Dave Kirwan