...while making certain that as many of the surreal and saucier, pre-Production Code Betty Boop cartoons as possible would be included.  (Anyone who has had to choose, in recent years, between one Public Domain Boop DVD set or another, would no doubt understand that most of the post-Code Boop shorts, excepting a handful generally believed to be lost, remain out there for the plentiful picking.  Those were the ones with Pudgy the pup, Grampy, and so on.) 

I love what I've seen from the Pre-Hays Betty Boops. Lots of gags and surreal fun.
I think it would be cool to go with a Betty Boop and Friends type of package.
The Talkartoons (which Betty made her debut in) should be included.

Swing You Sinners is a masterpiece of surrealism.

For anyone who isn't too familiar with Fleischer cartoons, here is what Fleischer was famous for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8isnhYMjg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9MAIgBZ10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBKAG0ut9Ds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUp_yg_-QG8

Awesome, ain't it?

The same set-up for Betty Boop could be used as for the Popeye boxes. Some documentairies and the remaining non-Betty talkartoons as bonus tracks. And of course this means we start with the pre-code cartoons since it is done chronologically.

Simply echoing what steve wrote -

Betty Boop merchandise sells!

There's an untapped audience that love the little gal.

If Shout Factory is looking for some help with the content of a Terrytoons compilation
I'd recdomend Jerry Beck of http://www.cartoonresearch.com/ - he's been behind the programming
of many cartoons sets such as the Looney Tunes Golden Collection among others.

Ray_Pointer is also a font of knowledge when it comes to the Fleischer Studio.

I remember the first time I saw a Fleischer cartoon. I was eight-or-so, at an underground cartoon festival. The programmer played "Betty Boop Bamboo Isle". The awesome weirdness in that cartoon had me thinking for weeks.

Just take a look at this amazing short:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4GYV5i-OaDE

The only problem is that no one has ever seen this short in good quality since 1932, the year it was made. The first time I saw this short was on a badly scratched, splicey film print. The next time I saw this short was on the 1996 Definitive Collection VHS set, badly riddled with DVNR. Now, when I want to see it today, I'm at the mercy of YouTube's extremely poor, choppy quality. (The version I posted here has the best quality I could find on YouTube, and that's still not saying much.)

I mentioned DVNR earlier in this post. Here are three articles that explain what DVNR is, and why it should be kept far, far away from classic animation. All articles are written by notable, reputable animation historians.

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.12/3.12pages/amididvnr.php3

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/droopy-on-dvd-uncut-and-dvnrd.html

http://www.lyris-lite.net//dvnr.html

So please, Shout! Factory, if we ever get a Betty Boop DVD, remember not to include DVNR as part of the restoration process.

So please, Shout! Factory, if we ever get a Betty Boop DVD, remember not to include DVNR as part of the restoration process.

Yeah, DVNR is a reoccuring problem on cartoon releases.

Something to be aware of.

By the way, I will add that if we do ever get a Boop DVD set,

Please..

NO COLOURIZED SHORTS!

Thank you.