Mention Snow White and everybody will immediately think of the Disney masterpiece; this version made four years earlier is much more surreal though... as one would expect from the Fleischer Brothers. Betty Boop appears as the eponymous Snow White and her regular sidekicks Bimbo and Koko appear as a pair of Knights who are ordered to chop of her head when the queen's magic mirror says that Snow White is the fairest in the land. It looks like she is doomed but they don't harm her. After a series of mishaps the end up in a cave, Betty in what appears to be an 'ice coffin'; the evil queen turns up and uses the mirror to turn Koko into a strange apparition that sings 'St, James Infirmary Blues'. Ultimately the mirror saves Betty and her friends and turns the queen into a hideous monster.
This was a very imaginative take on the Snow White story; cramming the whole tale into just seven minutes; including a musical interlude featuring the voice of the great Cab Callaway as Koko. While it is fairly funny the real enjoyment is seeing just how surreal it is... and Betty's Snow White might not be as well known as Disney's but I don't recall the latter's doing a rather sensual dance while tied to a tree! If you haven't seen this I'd definitely recommend checking it out; you might not think of Snow White in the same afterwards though!
This was a very imaginative take on the Snow White story; cramming the whole tale into just seven minutes; including a musical interlude featuring the voice of the great Cab Callaway as Koko. While it is fairly funny the real enjoyment is seeing just how surreal it is... and Betty's Snow White might not be as well known as Disney's but I don't recall the latter's doing a rather sensual dance while tied to a tree! If you haven't seen this I'd definitely recommend checking it out; you might not think of Snow White in the same afterwards though!