This 1934 Betty Boop Cinderella came out in only two colors, red and blue-green, because of a business deal. Disney had locked up the only good color in cartoons and shut every rival out, so Betty’s studio was stuck with a cheap two-color process.
That process was called Cinecolor, and the only colors it could print were red and a blue-green. You can see it in the picture. The carriage and footmen are red, the street behind them a cold blue, and past that the screen pretty much runs out of colors. The studio even changed Betty’s hair from its usual black to red and gave her green eyes, just to make the most of the colors it could manage.
Disney got there first. Back in 1932 he released a short cartoon called Flowers and Trees in full, rich color. It was the first cartoon ever made that way, and it won an Oscar. He had started it in plain black and white, then threw that out and redid the whole thing in color as a gamble, and it paid off. Color was expensive, so most studios stayed in black and white to save money. Disney spent that money sparingly, keeping even Mickey Mouse in black and white until 1935 and putting the pricey color only on his Silly Symphonies, the cartoons that needed the extra push. Then he signed a deal for the only rights to use that full-color process for cartoons, good all the way through the end of 1935.
That deal left every rival out in the cold. Max Fleischer, whose studio made Betty Boop, and Ub Iwerks, once Disney’s top animator, simply could not get it at all. So when Fleischer made his own first color cartoon, this Poor Cinderella in August 1934, he reached for the cheaper Cinecolor and pushed what little color he had as far as it would go. It was the first cartoon Paramount ever put out in color.
So what you are looking at is the real 1934 look, the same washed-out reds and blues that filled the cinema screen back then. A sweet little Cinderella cartoon ended up this way because, for a few years, one studio had quietly locked up all the good color and left everyone else to fight over the scraps.
Every year I use this opportunity to talk about identity. How labels exist for you to express who you are and who you love. I still find it hard to self identify in this space, but I’m here to tell you that’s okay 🤍
What I can tell you is I’m here and I’m queer 💋
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‘The Powerpuff Girls’ creator Craig McCracken has released a tribute to the late Tom Kane.
“I grew up without a dad, so it was important to me that the girls had the best one I could give them and that was Tom.”
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