Betty Boop and Grampy

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Betty Boop and Grampy Betty Boop series
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Voices by	Mae Questel
Animation by	David Tendlar Charles Hastings
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	August 16, 1935
Color process	Black-and-white
Running time	7 mins
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Betty Boop and Grampy is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.

[edit] Synopsis

Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm on my way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop - all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party.

Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices often resemble Rube Goldberg devices. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges.

Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.