Line #62 WesternAnimation/Talkartoons


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3	''Talkartoons'' is the name of a series of 42 animated cartoons produced by Creator/FleischerStudios and distributed by Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures between [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1929 and 1932.]] It is a sister series to the Fleischer's successful WesternAnimation/ScreenSongs cartoons. WesternAnimation/BettyBoop got her start in this series, which quickly made her the star of them and, circa 1932, became Betty's own standalone series altogether.
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5	A quick history of the series can be found on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkartoons this article]], courtesy of Website/TheOtherWiki.
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7	[[folder: Filmography]]
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9	!1929
10	* Noah's Lark: October 25
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12	!1930
13	* Marriage Wows: January 8
14	* Radio Riot: February 13
15	* Hot Dog: March 29 - First appearance of Bimbo.
16	* Fire Bugs: May 9
17	* Wise Flies: July 18
18	* WesternAnimation/DizzyDishes: August 9 - First appearance of the Betty Boop prototype; first appearance of new title card design.
19	* Barnacle Bill: August 31
20	* [[WesternAnimation/SwingYouSinners Swing You Sinners!]]: September 24
21	* Grand Uproar: October 3
22	* Sky Scraping: November 1
23	* Up to Mars: November 20
24	* Accordion Joe: Deccember 12
25	* Mysterious Mose: December 26.
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27	!1931
28	* Ace of Spades: January 16
29	* Tree Saps: February 3
30	* Teacher's Pest: February 7
31	* The Cow's Husband: March 13
32	* WesternAnimation/TheBumBandit: April 3
33	* The Male Man: April 24
34	* Twenty Legs Under the Sea: May 5
35	* Silly Scandals: May 23: First time Betty Boop is named.
36	* The Herring Murder Case: June 26 - First Talkartoon appearance of Koko the Clown
37	* WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation: July 24
38	* Bimbo's Express: August 22
39	* Minding the Baby: September 26
40	* In the Shade of the Old Apple Sauce: October 16
41	* Mask-A-Raid: November 7 - First appearance of the human Betty Boop
42	* Jack and the Beanstalk: November 21 - Final appearance of the dog-eared Betty Boop
43	* Dizzy Red Riding Hood: December 12
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45	!1932
46	* Any Rags?: January 2
47	* WesternAnimation/BoopOopADoop: January 16
48	* The Robot: February 5
49	* WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher: February 26
50	* WesternAnimation/SwimOrSinkSOS: March 11
51	* Crazy Town: March 25 - Features custom title design.
52	* The Dancing Fool: April 8
53	* Chess-Nuts: April 13
54	* A Hunting We Will Go: April 29
55	* Hide and Seek: May 26
56	* Admission Free: June 10
57	* The Betty Boop Limited: July 1
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60	!!Tropes:
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62	* ArtEvolution: The earliest shorts had a stiff, newspaper comic-esque aesthetic (accentuated by their lack of gray tones) to the animation (presumably due to the aforementioned shorts being among the final Fleischer shorts to utilize the paper-cutout animation process utilized throughout the ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' cartoons, as well as the first ''WesternAnimation/ScreenSongs''). This was immediately done away with as soon as the studio converted to cel animation and got Creator/GrimNatwick on board the staff, who helped beef up the animation of the Fleischer cartoons considerably.
63	** Bimbo went through multiple redesigns until settling on being a cute, big-eyed dog with a sweatshirt and shoes.
64	** Betty Boop too, going through an AnthropomorphicShift.
65	* AnimationBump: Some parts of the shorts would feature backgrounds that were animated in perspective, a fairly challenging feat to do for an animator.
66	** A scene from "The Bum Bandit", where several different backgrounds were used to create a successive first-person zoom-up shot to a gun-wielding Bimbo.
67	** Any scene from the 1930-31 shorts animated by Grim Natwick, typically identifiable through their distorted, 'jittering' motion (allegedly attributable to Natwick 'stretching' the designs of the characters in consecutively-different directions in between key poses), which incongruously amounts to some of the most fluid and 'spontaneous' animation in the entire Fleischer catalogue.
68	* BreakoutCharacter: Betty Boop, who eventually got her own series.
69	* CarnivoreConfusion: Humanlike spiders who want to eat the equally humanlike flies in "Wise Flies".
70	* ConstructionIsAwesome: Demonstrated in "Sky Scraping".
71	* DerangedAnimation: As is typical of the Fleischers' early-30s style (effectively a bizarre amalgamation of mechanical, evenly-timed motion, characters continuously 'twitching' to sync with the background score and abrupt, randomly-implemented interpolating gags), some of these shorts are just plain nutty, especially compared to Disney's product from around the same time. "WesternAnimation/SwingYouSinners!", the lesser-known "Twenty Legs Under the Sea" and "WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation" in particular stand among the most esoteric animated shorts in existence.
72	* TheEveryman: Bimbo, of course.
73	* {{Expy}}: Bimbo is an expy of the earlier Max Fleischer cartoon dog Fitz, from ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell''.
74	* ExtremeOmnivore: The customer in "Dizzy Dishes" waiting for his roast duck ends up eating his plate and cutlery and even one of the table legs.
75	* MickeyMousing: Prevalent, as it was in early sound cartoons.
76	* MindScrew: "Swing You Sinners!" and "Up to Mars".
77	* {{Rotoscoping}}: Used in "The Cow's Husband", "Minnie the Moocher" and "Crazy Town".
78	* RunningGag: "Grand Uproar" had a fat hippo moving his way through the theater seats and knocking a patron out of his seat at the end of the row. The third time around, the annoyed patron pulls out a fold-up chair and sits in the aisle.
79	* [[SquirrelsInMyPants Snakes in My Pants]]: Happens to Noah in "Noah's Lark".
80	* SplitHair: Inverted in "Dizzy Dishes", where the tip of Bimbo's knife is sliced off by the hair.
81	* WeirdnessMagnet: Poor Bimbo.

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