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Snow White is a 1933 animated short film in the Betty Boop
series from Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The plot starts with a magic mirror proclaiming Betty Boop to be "the fairest in the land", much to the anger of the Queen. The Queen orders her guards Bimbo and Koko to behead Betty, and with tears in their eyes, they take Betty into the forest and prepare to execute her. Betty escapes into a frozen river, which encloses her in a coffin of ice. This block slips downhill to the home of the seven dwarfs, who carry the frozen Betty into an enchanted cave. Meanwhile, Koko falls down a hole and arrives at the same cave, where the evil Queen turns him into a grotesque creature. With her rivals disposed of, the Queen again asks the magic mirror who the fairest in the land is, but the mirror explodes in a puff of magic smoke that returns Betty and Koko to their normal states and changes the Queen into a hideous monster. The queen-cum-monster chases the protagonists until Koko grabs its tongue and, with one mighty yank turns it inside out. Betty, Koko, and Bimbo dance around in a circle of victory as the film ends. This plot, such as it is, is really more a framework to display a series of gags, musical selections, and clever animation. Critics have cited the film as having some of the most imaginative animation and background drawings from the Fleischer Studios artists.

Mae Questel does the voices of Betty Boop and the Queen, and Cab Calloway does the voice of Koko the Clown, singing "St. James Infirmary Blues" while much of Koko's dancing is actually rotoscoped from footage of Calloway. The movie was produced by Max Fleischer studios and directed by Dave Fleischer.

St. James Infirmary Blues, being a traditional song, has many lyrical variations. The version sung in this cartoon is as follows.

:Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary, :See my baby there; :She's stretched out on a long, white table, :She's so sweet, so cold, so fair.

:Let her go, let her go, God bless her, :Wherever she may be, :She will search this wide world over, :But she'll never find another sweet man like me.

:Now, when I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches, :Put on a box-back coat and a stetson hat, :Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain, :So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat.

:An' give me six crap shooting pall bearers, :Let a chorus girl sing me a song. :Put a red hot jazz band at the top of my head :So we can raise Hallelujah as we go along.

:Folks, now that you have heard my story, :Say, boy, hand me another shot of that booze; :If anyone should ask you, :Tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary blues.

The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

See also Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
.

Category:1933 films Category:United States National Film Registry

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