DESCRIPTION:
Cab Calloway recorded his famous song for this 1932 Fleischer Studios Talkartoon cartoon starring Betty Boop and Bimbo. Calloway and his band provide most of the score, and appear in a 30 second live-action intro. This the earliest-known film footage of Calloway. In the cartoon, Betty decides to run away from her parents (to the tune of "Mean to Me"), and Bimbo comes with her. While walking away from home, Betty and Bimbo wind up in a spooky area, and hide in a hollow tree. A ghost walrus—whose gyrations were rotoscoped from footage of Calloway dancing—appears to them, and begins to sing "Minnie the Moocher", w/many fellow ghosts following along. After singing, the ghosts chase Betty and Bimbo back home.