Betty Boop, seductive cartoon character who wowed movie audiences in the 1930s, has become a new item on the home video circuit 50 years later. At least a half-dozen collections of original Betty Boop ...

The Tony Awards, honoring Broadway stage productions, are being held tonight, and Boop! The Musical is nominated for three Tonys, including a nod for Jasmine Amy Rogers for her starring role as the ...

NEW YORK — In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time.

Apparently the Fleischer estate has lost a court battle for the rights to Betty Boop, a character created by Grim Natwick at Max Fleischer’s studio in 1930. Fleischer Studios has been co-licensing ...

Myron Waldman, 97, an animator who helped draw Betty Boop, Casper, Popeye and Raggedy Ann and Andy, and originated Boop’s sidekick -- a dog named Pudgy -- died of congestive heart failure Saturday at ...

That curly black hair, those big green eyes, that little red dress. Betty Boop is still recognizable 85 years after her debut in the Dizzy Dishes cartoon that premiered on Aug. 9, 1930 as part of ...

ABC's Stephanie Sy and cartoonist Bryan Brinkman celebrate Betty Boop's birthday Aug. 9, 2010— -- A legend of the silver screen is celebrating today, as the black-and-white femme fatale, Betty ...

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