How to Fill a Pool

Grampy and Betty Boop

I was doing some reading on the history of Betty Boop and she did have quite a list of characters to work with. Her "pet" dog to start, and this character Grampy who was a bit of an inventor. So I started with a simple gag.

Instant water.

So why is it colored like this? Well, these were filmed in the 1930's. Away back then, before digital, before 13 TV channels, before color, almost before electricity, there was black and white. Using this as a limit I only used black and two greys.

Yes, of course there is more in the scrapbook: [link]