''Zula Hula'' is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring

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. Due to the use of negative racial stereotypes, this short is seldom screened today.

Synopsis

Betty and Grampy are on an around-the-world flight when they are forced to crash-land on an apparently deserted island. Betty is upset with their situation, but Grampy quickly invents a number of gadgets that allow them all the comforts of home. Things again take a turn for the worse when a group of

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s show up. Quick thinking Grampy charms the savages by creating a

calliope In Greek mythology, Calliope ( ; grc, Καλλιόπη, Kalliópē, beautiful-voiced) is the Muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice. Hesiod and Ovid called her the "Chief of all Muse ...

out of the crashed plane's parts. While the natives are distracted by the music, Grampy and Betty repair their plane and make a hasty escape.

Reception

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'' said on January 15, 1938, "The whole of the business is detailed in an amusing and rapidly drawn vein of clever cartooning. Similarly, on January 29, ''

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'' described the short as "another one of those sheer wacky cartoons that gather a fair share of laughs."

References

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1937 animated films Betty Boop cartoons 1930s American animated films American black-and-white films 1937 films Paramount Pictures short films Fleischer Studios short films Short films directed by Dave Fleischer Films about cannibalism Films about race and ethnicity Films set on islands Race-related controversies in animation Race-related controversies in film {{BettyBoop-animation-film-stub