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Plot

At the inventor's show, Betty,

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demonstrate a variety of gadgets, including: * The spot remover — a large steam-powered device that removes the spot by cutting a hole in the fabric. * The cigarette snuffer — a mechanical foot sniffs out the cigarette, then a mechanical hand sweeps it up. * The soup silencer — parts from a

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are installed on a spoon to convert the slurps to music. * The sweet corn regulator — a typewriter is adapted to position the corn for easy eating. * The voice recorder * The self-threading sewing machine — a mechanical hand and eyeball thread the needle. When the automated sewing machine gets out of control and proceeds to sew various things together, Bimbo and Betty escape via an umbrella that turns into a helicopter.

In other media

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A Brief Story

Assisted by ticket-taker Bimbo the Dog and product-demonstrator Koko the Clown, Betty Boop stages a "Big Invention Show". Highlights of the program include a pig-powered pipe organ, a Rube Goldberg-style spot remover, a cigarette snuffer, a soup silencer, a sweet-corn regulator, and an egg-frying device, replete with optional hen and rooster. Betty herself demonstrates a most unusual voice recorder with a performance of "Keep a Little Song Handy". The show's number-one attraction, a ''very'' powerful self-threading sewing machine, knits up the proceedings quite nicely. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi A message from "CCTheMovieman" rated it 5 stars. "This was my first look in over 40 years at a Betty Boop cartoon.....and I was impressed. It was pretty funny and very "inventive", pun intended. This really wasn't her style, either, as I have since discovered (singing and dancing was her forte.)"

References

External links

''Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions'' at IMDb''Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions'' at YouTube
1933 short films Betty Boop cartoons 1930s American animated films American black-and-white films 1933 animated films Paramount Pictures short films Fleischer Studios short films Short films directed by Dave Fleischer 1930s English-language films American animated short films Animated films about dogs Comedy films about clowns {{BettyBoop-animation-film-stub