Mask-A-Raid
| Mask-A-Raid | |
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| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Starring |
Little Ann Little Walter Van Brunt |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Mask-A-Raid is a 1931 Fleischer Studios Talkartoon animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is the first Betty Boop cartoon to show Betty as a human, which the character is best known being shown as.
Synopsis
Betty Boop is queen of the Masquerade Ball. She gets annoyed by the king of the ball, who is coming on too strong. Bimbo does Italian scatting to confuse the king. Bimbo and the king pull on Betty's arms. Her skirt goes up, showing her underwear and her two garters and a little creature pins the dress closed. Betty wants the two to fight it out, to determine who is worthy of her affections, and pulls out two wooden swords, one big and one small, and tosses a coin to determine who gets which --- Bimbo gets the short one. The king and bimbo fight, Bimbo loses and is taken away by a knight, revealing to be Betty, who asks him to marry her, with the cartoon ending with Bimbo doing more Italian scatting.