Betty Boop: Story Of The First Fully Human, Fully Woman Animated Character


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In the 1930s, Fleischer Studios’ giant rival was Disney and their styles are completely opposing. Disney was more on the fantastical world while Fleischer was featuring the dangerous urban world.  Heather Hendershot, a media historian at MIT, said that “The Fleischer Studios had a really experimental and kind of Surrealist style.”

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Photo credit: Smithsonian Magazine