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The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)

The Old Man of the Mountain poster
Directed by
Dave Fleischer
Genre
dance film
Country
United States
Runtime
6h 52m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A live-action and animated short film featuring Betty Boop. Cab Calloway voices multiple characters and performs the music including two original songs.

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What happens

The Old Man of the Mountain is a 1933 American pre-Code live-action/animated short in the Betty Boop series, produced by Fleischer Studios. Featuring music by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra (as with Minnie the Moocher), the short was originally released to theaters on August 4, 1933, by Paramount Pictures. Calloway voices all of the characters in the cartoon save for Betty herself (voiced by Bonnie Poe, her singing voice provided by Mae Questel). Calloway and his orchestra also perform all of the music in the cartoon, including two songs Calloway co-wrote. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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