Betty Boop - "Honest Love and True" and "At the Concert" (found animated shorts; 1938)

From The Lost Media Wiki
Revision as of 14:32, 11 April 2018 by Ryanskip (talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search
Download2.jpg

A fan's recreation of what the title card for "Honest Love and True" looks like.

Status: Partially Lost

There were two missing shorts from the famous Betty Boop series. The short "Honest Love and True", was released in 1938, and placed Betty in the role of a worker at a Klondike saloon. It is rumored to have been included in the 1942-1943 16mm film rental catalog for Films Incorporated, but this claim has not yet been confirmed.

"Buzzy Boop at the Concert" (1938) was most likely about Betty's tomboy cousin, Buzzy, wreaking havoc at a concert. Very little is known about this short beyond this surmised premise.

Reputable animation historian Jerry Beck had regarded both of these shorts as lost, but in early 2017, he revealed UCLA had found a print of "Honest Love and True", albeit with no audio. It was restored and screened at the UCLA's Festival of Preservation that year.

Sources

"Honest Love and True":


"Buzzy Boop at the Concert":