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Keep in Style

1934 film by Dave Fleischer

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ6383121 ↗
Source-derived summary

Keep in Style is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.

Plot

Betty holds a "Betty Boop Exposition", where she displays the latest modern inventions. Her creations included an ultra-streamlined car, a roadster with multiple rumble seats (for those with a large family), a multi-level baby carriage for quintuplets, and a grand piano that can change into other useful contraptions. Her final invention is her dress, which can change into a flower, a butterfly, and a high-collared gown with a train. The dress is a sensation, and soon everyone is wearing the latest Boop creation.

References

External links

Keep in Style at the Big Cartoon Database.

Keep in Style on YouTube.

Editorial summary

“Keep in Style” enters the record as 1934 film by Dave Fleischer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Keep, Style and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Keep, Style and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Keep in Style” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Keep, Style and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6383121. The first chronological checks are 1934.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keep in Style” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.