Bessie's Rise to Fame

Bessie's Rise to Fame is the twenty-forth Mighty B! theatrical cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.

This short alongside Bessie's 10th Anniversary (1941) is now in the public domain after then owner NTA failed to renew it's copyright in 1977.

Plot
In a live action sequence, a reporter comes to the Fleischer Studios and interviews the animated Bessie on how she became famous, she talks briefly about her start in the comic strips before talking about her cartoons, much of the film mainly uses stock footage from The Great Honey Robbery, Swing, Swing, Swing and Bessie's Robot.

Home Media
Due to it's public domain status, it has shown up on inexpensive VHS and DVD collections, however a restored edition with the original Paramount titles was released in 2015 as part of The Mighty B!: Volume 2, 1937-39 in 2015 by Olive Films.