Swat the Fly
About Swat the Fly
Betty Boop sets out to bake a cake. A fly will not leave her or her puppy Pudgy alone, and her swats miss. She flings extra dough at it until one lump flattens the fly on Pudgy's nose. The house is left in pieces. The fly works itself loose again.
Cast & crew
More about Swat the Fly
Dave Fleischer directed and Max Fleischer produced this black-and-white Betty Boop short. Paramount Pictures released it. Sam Stimson and David Tendlar animated.
Themes
Making
It is one of the 1935 Betty Boop shorts Fleischer Studios delivered to Paramount, with Max Fleischer producing and Dave Fleischer directing.
Preservation
A print is available on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Mae Questel voices Betty.
- Pudgy the Puppy shares the kitchen with her.
- The short is in black and white, not the color process Fleischer used on some other series.
- Animators credited are Sam Stimson and David Tendlar.
Scenes
- A lump of dough pins the fly flat on Pudgy's nose.
- The fly pulls free after the kitchen has already been wrecked.
Also available
- Internet Archive (bb_swat_the_fly)
