House Cleaning Blues

House Cleaning Blues
Betty Boop series
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Voices by	Mae Questel (as Betty Boop-uncredited) Jack Mercer (as Grampy-uncredited)
Music by	Sammy Timberg
Animation by	Eli Brucker David Tendlar
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	January 15, 1937
Color process	Black-and-white
Running time	6mins
Language	English

House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.

Synopsis

Betty wakes up after the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shambles, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy.

Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain).

Notes

• This is the first episode in which Betty doesn't have a separated layer of her hair shown.

External links

• House Cleaning Blues at the Big Cartoon Databases