House Cleaning Blues

House Cleaning Blues
House Cleaning Blues
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Mae Questel; (Betty Boop); Everett Clark (Grampy); Jack Mercer (Roosters)
Music by	Sammy Timberg
Animation by	David Tendlar; Eli Brucker
Color process	Black-and-white
Production; company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	January 15, 1937;
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.^[4]

Synopsis

Betty wakes up in the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shamble, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy.

Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain).

Notes

This is the first episode in which Betty doesn't have a separated layer of her hair shown.

References

^ Komorowski, Thad (15 September 2014). "Fleischer Promo Art #16: "Betty Slays 'Em!"". Cartoon Research.
^ ^a ^b Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
^ "House Cleaning Blues (1937)". YouTube: Screen Prisms. 1 June 2024.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.