Item Details:

PARAMOUNT TALKARTOON ONE SHEET CARTOON MOVIE POSTER

FLEISCHER STUDIOS ARTISTS

GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION, 1930

Original Release One Sheet

Edition: Unknown

Publisher: Fleischer Studios/Paramount

Stone Lithograph

Size: 27 x 41 in; 68.58 x 104.14 cm

Signed: unsigned

The Talkartoons started out as one-shot cartoons, the first to be animated on cels, and thus to employ a full range of greys. New animators such as Grim Natwick, Shamus Culhane, and Rudy Zamora began entering the Fleischer Studio, with new ideas that pushed the Talkartoons into a league of their own. Natwick especially had an off-beat style of animating that helped give the shorts more of a surreal quality. Perhaps his greatest contribution to the Talkartoons series and the Fleischer Studio was the creation of Betty Boop with Dizzy Dishes in 1930. By late 1931, Betty Boop dominated the series. Koko the Clown was brought out of retirement from the silent days as a third character to Betty and Bimbo. By 1932, the series was at an inevitable end and instead, Betty Boop would be given her own series, with Bimbo and Koko as secondary characters.

Private Collection, New York City