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No. Film Original release date Credited animators Notes Video if in the public domain 1 Noah’s Lark October 26 No animators credited https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/Noah%27s_Lark_%281929%2C_Unrestored%29.webm/Noah%27s_Lark_%281929%2C_Unrestored%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm No. Film Original release date Credited animators Notes Video if in the public domain 2 Marriage Wows January 12 No animators credited

• UCLA has nitrate elements on this title, therefore is not a lost cartoon.
• Working title: Wedding Belles^[5]

3 Radio Riot February 10 No animators credited

• First appearance of Margie Hines (as well as of a female voice) in a Fleischer cartoon
• The bedtime story broadcast at the end was written by Yip Harburg.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Radio_Riot_%281930%29.webm 4 Hot Dog March 29 No animators credited

• First appearance of Bimbo (as yet unnamed).
• First Fleischer cartoon to feature gray tones.
• First Fleischer cartoon to be scored by Lou Fleischer.
• Utilizes a recording of “Saint Louis Blues” by Eddie Peabody within the soundtrack.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5e/Hot_Dog_%281930%29.webm/Hot_Dog_%281930%29.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov 5 Fire Bugs May 9 Ted Sears
Grim Natwick

• A Bimbo cartoon (though he is still unnamed).
• First Fleischer cartoon to credit animators.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Fire_Bugs_%281930%29.webm 6 Wise Flies July 14 Willard Bowsky
Ted Sears https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/57/Wise_Flies_%281930%29.webm/Wise_Flies_%281930%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm 7 Dizzy Dishes August 9 Grim Natwick
Ted Sears

• A Bimbo cartoon. First appearance of Betty Boop (though she and Bimbo are both unnamed).
• Bimbo’s fur switches from white to black.
• First appearance of a new title card design that would remain through the series.
• Officially released on Betty Boop: The Essential Collection, Volume 2.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/Dizzy_Dishes_%281930%29.webm/Dizzy_Dishes_%281930%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm 8 Barnacle Bill August 25 Rudy Zamora
Seymour Kneitel

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon, featuring them in the (named) roles of Barnacle Bill and Nancy Lee.
• Uncredited animator: Grim Natwick

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Barnacle_Bill_%281930%29.webm/Barnacle_Bill_%281930%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm 9 Swing You Sinners! September 22 Ted Sears

Willard Bowsky

• A Bimbo cartoon (though he is still unnamed).
• Includes caricature of Jewish comedian Max Davidson.
• Uncredited animators: Grim Natwick, Jimmie Culhane

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/Swing_You_Sinners%21_%281930%29.webm/Swing_You_Sinners%21_%281930%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm 10 Grand Uproar October 12 Seymour Kneitel
Al Eugster

• A Bimbo cartoon (though he is still unnamed).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Grand_Uproar_%281930%29.webm 11 Sky Scraping November 1 Ted Sears
Willard Bowsky

• A Bimbo cartoon, naming him in the title card; from here onward, he is usually named.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Sky_Scraping_%281930%29.webm 12 Up to Mars November 23 Rudy Zamora
Jimmie Culhane https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/Up_To_Mars_%281930%29.webm/Up_To_Mars_%281930%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm 13 Accordion Joe December 12 Ted Sears
Grim Natwick

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon (though Betty is still unnamed).
• Some sources incorrectly label this as a 1929 release.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/Accordion_Joe_%281930%29.webm/Accordion_Joe_%281930%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm 14 Mysterious Mose December 27 Willard Bowsky
Ted Sears

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon (though Betty is still unnamed).
• Uncredited animator: Grim Natwick

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/Mysterious_Mose_%281930%29.webm/Mysterious_Mose_%281930%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm No. Film Original release date Credited animators Notes Video if in the public domain 15 Ace of Spades January 6 Rudy Zamora
Al Eugster

• A Bimbo cartoon.
• Television materials exist as with most of the other Talkartoons, but prints are more scarce.

16 Tree Saps January 19 Grim Natwick
Ted Sears 17 Teacher’s Pest February 7 Grim Natwick
Seymour Kneitel

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon (though Betty, who only appears briefly, is still unnamed).

18 The Cow’s Husband March 14 Jimmie Culhane
R. Eggeman

• A Bimbo cartoon.
• Bimbo’s fur switches back to white.
• The bull’s dance was rotoscoped.

19 The Bum Bandit April 6 Willard Bowsky
Al Eugster

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon (though Betty is named “Dangerous Nan McGrew”).
• Betty is voiced by Harriet Lee instead of Margie Hines.
• First time Betty Boop is seen with her slender physique.
• Uncredited animator: Grim Natwick

20 The Male Man April 24 Ted Sears
Seymour Kneitel

• A Bimbo cartoon.
• Uncredited animator: Grim Natwick

21 Twenty Legs Under the Sea May 5 Willard Bowsky
Tom Bonfiglio 22 Silly Scandals May 23 Unknown

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon.
• First time Betty is named, though only as “Betty” (no surname given).
• First time Betty is voiced by Mae Questel.

23 The Herring Murder Case June 24 Unknown

• A Bimbo cartoon. First time Bimbo is animated in his most familiar design.
• First sound cartoon appearance of Koko the Clown.

24 Bimbo’s Initiation July 27 Unknown

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon.
• Bimbo is voiced by Claude Reese instead of Billy Murray.^[6]
• Placed at #37 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.
• Officially released on Betty Boop: The Essential Collection, Volume 2.

25 Bimbo’s Express August 22 Unknown

• A Bimbo and Betty cartoon (formally billed as such in the titles, still giving Betty no surname).
• Bimbo is voiced by Claude Reese.

26 Minding the Baby September 28 Jimmie Culhane
Bernard Wolf

• A Betty and Bimbo cartoon (first time Betty’s full name appears in the titles, stylized as “Betty-Boop”).

27 In the Shade of the Old Apple Sauce October 19 Unknown

• A Bimbo cartoon.
• Not to be confused with the 1929 similarly-titled Screen Song, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree.
• Lost cartoon.

28 Mask-A-Raid November 9 Unknown

• A Betty and Bimbo cartoon.
• Bimbo is voiced by Claude Reese.
• The first Talkartoon to put the director and animator credits on a separate title card.
• First time Betty is depicted as a human in the Talkartoon series, with her dog ears replaced by hoop earrings.

29 Jack and the Beanstalk November 22 Roland Crandall

Sam Stimson

• A Betty and Bimbo cartoon, seemingly held over from earlier production (with both appearing with primitive designs, this being the last time Betty was depicted as a dog)

30 Dizzy Red Riding Hood December 12 Unknown

• A Betty and Bimbo cartoon.
• Bimbo is voiced by Claude Reese.

No. Film Original release date Credited animators Notes Video if in the public domain 31 Any Rags? January 5 Willard Bowsky
Thomas Bonfiglio

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.
• The surviving master negative has the original opening title card intact.

32 Boop-Oop-a-Doop January 16 Unknown

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.
• Betty is voiced by Margie Hines, with Mae Questel providing her singing voice.
• First use of the song “Sweet Betty”, which would become the theme song for the Betty Boop series.
• Officially released on Betty Boop: The Essential Collection, Volume 2.

33 The Robot February 8 Unknown

• A Bimbo cartoon, seemingly held over from earlier production (Bimbo appears in a primitive design; Bimbo’s girlfriend is largely a generic one-off, but drawn as Betty in some close-ups that look to have been added later).
• There is a possibility this was intended to be an advertising cartoon, since the characters are similar to those on the 1931 Fleischer short Step on It, produced for Texaco)

34 Minnie the Moocher January 1 (NYC)

February 26 (general release)

Willard Bowsky
Ralph Somerville

• A Betty and Bimbo cartoon (Koko the Clown appears in a brief cameo).
• Betty is voiced by Margie Hines, with Mae Questel providing her singing voice.
• Bimbo is voiced by Claude Reese.
• Music performed by Cab Calloway and his orchestra. This short contains the earliest known footage of him and his orchestra performing.
• The walrus’ dancing is rotoscoped from footage of Calloway himself.
• Sometimes seen with a refilmed TV title card; transfers with original titles were featured on some on 1980s video compilations.
• Named #20 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.
• Officially released on Betty Boop: The Essential Collection, Volume 3.

35 Swim or Sink March 13 Seymour Knitel
Bernard Wolf

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.
• The original title cards likely animated the short’s title; the later, commonly seen TV title card is taken from a single frame of the original, captured at a point where the title reads just “S O S”.

36 Crazy Town March 26 James H. Culhane
David Tendlar

• A Betty and Bimbo cartoon.
• Betty is voiced by Mae Questel.
• Contains special live-action title cards.

37 The Dancing Fool April 6 Seymour Kneitel
Bernard Wolf

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.

38 Chess-Nuts April 18 James H. Culhane
William Henning

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.
• Betty is voiced by Mae Questel
• Officially released on Betty Boop: The Essential Collection, Volume 1.

39 A-Hunting We Will Go May 3 Alfred Eugster
Rudolph Eggeman

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.

40 Hide and Seek May 14 Roland Crandall

• A Bimbo cartoon, seemingly held over from earlier production (Bimbo appears in a primitive design; Bimbo’s girlfriend is the same featured in The Robot).
• There is a possibility that, as in the aforementioned cartoon, this was intended to be an advertising cartoon.

41 Admission Free June 10 Thomas Johnson
Rudolph Eggeman

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.
• Betty is voiced by Mae Questel

42 The Betty Boop Limited July 18 Willard Bowsky
Thomas Bonfiglio

• A Betty, Bimbo and Koko cartoon.
• Final Talkartoon.
• Officially released on Betty Boop: The Essential Collection, Volume 2.