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




![Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
From Wikipedia:
Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 1950. The winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Animated Short,[1] Gerald McBoing-Boing is the story of a little boy who speaks through sound effects instead of spoken words.
Directed by: Robert Cannon
Produced by: Stephen Bosustow (executive producer), John Hubley (producer)
Story by: Dr. Seuss (original story), Phil Eastman, Bill Scott
Narrated by: Marvin Miller
Music by: Gail Kubik
Animation by: Rudy Larriva,Pat Matthews, Bill Meléndez, Willis Pyle, Frank Smith
Layouts by: William T. Hurtz
Backgrounds by: Jules Engel, Herbert Klynn
Studio: United Productions of America
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release date(s): November 2, 1950
Color process: Technicolor Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oodq5Qz6htY/mqdefault.jpg)





