The Hot Air Salesman

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

A door-to-door salesman of dental appliances encounters beautiful, well-endowed nude women everywhere he goes.

Ham, a con-artist, makes a less-than-friendly bet with Joseph, a missionary, that he can persuade more people to believe in Jesus than Joseph. As the two salesmen go door to door, they never know who they will find on the other side.

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.

Snowbound in a remote cabin, two starving men begin visualizing each other as food. When salesman Daffy Duck calls at their door, it doesn't take long before the men set their minds on having Daffy as their dinner.

Slug McSlug, a notorious bank robber, is chased by police after his latest heist. He reaches his country hideout, where he is promptly visited by an uninvited Daffy Duck, who is a door-to-door vendor of a variety of items.

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.

In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.

Pudgy the pup meets the female pup next door, whose snobbish owner calls him a "little nobody". A pep talk from Betty Boop turns Pudgy into a hero.

Pudgy the pup takes Betty Boop's advice ('Go Out and Make Friends With the World') to heart and befriends various wild animals.

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are prevented by a thunderstorm from going to the carnival. Inventive Grampy devises a substitute.

While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the pup take the blame as usual?

Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a romantic tom-cat gigolo.

A door-to-door salesman tries to sell the "Super Madsen" multi-function housekeeping appliance to a series of housewives at a block of flats. The eleventh in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".

Henry, comic strip character, gets a job at Betty Boop's pet store.

Betty Boop, annoyed by 'public pests' like backslappers, gum parkers, and mud splashers, imagines what she'd do to them if she were a judge.

Betty Boop tells naughty Little Jimmy a corrective fairy tale.

Betty Boop and some friends go to Grampy's house for a party.