Poor Cinderella

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Poor Cinderella
series = Color Classics (Betty Boop)

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caption =
director = Dave Fleischer
story_artist =
animator = Seymour Kneitel
Roland Crandall
William Henning
voice_actor = Mae Questel
musician = Murray Mencher
Jack Scholl
Charles Tobias
producer = Max Fleischer
distributor = Paramount Pictures
release_date = August 3, 1934
color_process = Cinecolor
runtime = 10 mins
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0025665

"Poor Cinderella" is a 1934 Fleischer Studio animated short film featuring Betty Boop. The first entry in the "Color Classics" series, "Poor Cinderella" was Fleischer Studio's first color film, and the only appearance of Betty Boop in color during the Fleischer era.

ynopsis

In this retelling of the Cinderella story, Betty is the title character, a poor young woman forced to be the virtual slave of her two ugly stepsisters. Betty/Cinderella is visited by her fairy godmother, who grants her wish to attend the prince's ball, giving her beautiful clothes, a carriage, and the traditional glass slippers. When midnight strikes, she rushes out of the ball, leaving behind her shoe. The prince searches the land for the woman whose foot fits the slipper, and finds his "poor Cinderella." The two are married, and the ugly step-sisters are left to argue with each other until the credits smack their heads together.

Background

The short utilized the two-strip Cinecolor process. Betty's hair was colored red to take advantage of this. The short also used Fleischer Studio's Tabletop process, in order to provide some scenes with additional depth of field. Along with many of the other "Color Classics", "Poor Cinderella" is today in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the Internet Archive, among other locations.

Rudy Vallee appears in caricature, singing the title song during the ball sequence.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/4340-Poor_Cinderella.html "Poor Cinderella"] at the Big Cartoon Database
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Betty_Boop_Poor_Cinderella_1934 "Poor Cinderella"] at the Internet Archive
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYn27ilwSkk "Poor Cinderella"] on YouTube