Post #606368 by tigertail777 on Mon, Sep 12, 2011 4:44 AM

Oh this is going to be incredible! Did you know the cartoon you based this off of: "Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle (1932)" was one of the main cartoons that caused the Hayes office to force the Fleischers to make Betty less "sexy" and start censoring theirs and other studios cartoons? Mainly because when she is doing the hula you can very briefly see her breasts a few times. The Fleischers were none too happy with the pressure for censorship, which is probably why only a year later they had her reprise the exact same role when she meets Popeye: just to cheese off the censors at the Hayes office.

Here is that portion of the animation from Bamboo Isle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUxx2GUgyU

Here is the full Bamboo Isle cartoon with a unique live action intro by the Royal Samoans. The usual mind blowingly bizarre and surreal Fleischer stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxiY-NeXzCI

And when she meets Popeye and does the Hula again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_bU7ZjKd90

Not much by today's standards, but for the 1930's, pretty heady stuff. Of course the general public back then didn't have the mentality that just because it is animated it should be for kids like many do now.

Can't wait to see the progression on this one-- it is going to ROCK! Great choice of subject matter!