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| cartoon_name = Out of the Inkwell
| cartoon_name = Out of the Inkwell
| series = [[Betty Boop]]
| series = [[Max Fleischer]]/[[Betty Boop]] ([[Betty Boop]])
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| animator = '''Animated by:'''<br>[[Thomas Johnson (animator)|Thomas Johnson]] and [[Otto Feuer]]<ref>Full credits at [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030536/ IMDb].</ref>
| animator = '''Animated by:'''<br>[[Thomas Johnson (animator)|Thomas Johnson]] and [[Otto Feuer]]<ref>Full credits at [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030536/ IMDb].</ref>
| voice_actor = '''Featuring the voice talents of:'''<br>[[Bonnie Poe]] as Betty Boop<br>[[Oscar Polk]] as a live-action black janitor<br>(both uncredited)
| voice_actor = '''Featuring the voice talents of:'''<br>[[Bonnie Poe]] as Betty Boop<br>[[Oscar Polk]] as a live-action black janitor<br>(both uncredited)
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| producer = [[Max Fleischer]] (producer)<br>[[S. Roy Luby]] (associate producer)
| producer = [[Max Fleischer]] (producer)<br>[[S. Roy Luby]] (associate producer)
| studio = [[Fleischer Studios]]
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| followed_by = ''[[The Swing School]]''
| followed_by = ''[[The Swing School]]''
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'''''Out of the Inkwell''''' is a 1938 [[Max Fleischer]]/[[Betty Boop]] [[animated short]] film.<ref>''Out of the Inkwell'' at [https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1523-Out-Of-The-Inkwell The Big Cartoon Database].</ref> The title and concept for the film were a tribute to the ''[[Out of the Inkwell]]'' series of films that [[Max Fleischer]] had produced during the 1920s.
'''''Out of the Inkwell''''' is a 1938 [[Max Fleischer]]/[[Betty Boop]] [[live-action]] [[animated short]] film.<ref>''Out of the Inkwell'' at [https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1523-Out-Of-The-Inkwell The Big Cartoon Database].</ref> The title and concept for the film were a tribute to the ''[[Out of the Inkwell]]'' series of films that [[Max Fleischer]] had produced during the 1920s.


==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
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[[Category:Short films directed by Dave Fleischer]]
[[Category:Short films directed by Dave Fleischer]]
[[Category:American animated short films]]
[[Category:American animated short films]]
[[Category:Short films with live action and animation]]





Revision as of 20:15, 27 November 2018

Out of the Inkwell
Directed byDave Fleischer
Produced byMax Fleischer (producer)
S. Roy Luby (associate producer)
Animation byAnimated by:
Thomas Johnson and Otto Feuer[1]
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Running time
7 mins

Out of the Inkwell is a 1938 Max Fleischer/Betty Boop live-action animated short film.[2] The title and concept for the film were a tribute to the Out of the Inkwell series of films that Max Fleischer had produced during the 1920s.

Synopsis

A live-action black janitor, played by Oscar Polk, best known for his portrayal as the servant "Pork" in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, studies hypnotism from a book while cleaning Max Fleischer's desk at the Fleischer studio. He manages to conjure Max's pen into drawing Betty Boop. In a sequence of animation mixed with live-action, he uses his new powers to control the white animated Boop. She in turn is able to control a small dog. After waking from the spell, Betty manages to work a few more spells. Fraught with racial innuendo, one of her tricks includes turning the black man white for a split-second, after which he begins cleaning in overdrive. Before that, he was sleeping on his broom and sweeping dirt under the carpet. At the end, Betty Boop leaps into a bottle of black ink.

References

  1. ^ Full credits at IMDb.
  2. ^ Out of the Inkwell at The Big Cartoon Database.