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It has nothing to do with William Bernard, the sailor and California Gold Rush character known as "Barnacle Bill". Ironically, Fleischer Studios also produced a Popeye cartoon, Beware of Barnacle Bill in 1935, using the same song as aforementioned, almost 5 years after Betty Boop cartoon Barnacle Bill was released, with Bluto as Barnacle Bill ...
Barnacle Bill: August 25 Rudy Zamora Seymour Kneitel: A Bimbo and Betty cartoon, featuring them in the (named) roles of Barnacle Bill and Nancy Lee. Uncredited animator: Grim Natwick; 9 Swing You Sinners! September 22 Ted Sears Willard Bowsky A Bimbo cartoon (though he is still unnamed). Includes caricature of Jewish comedian Max Davidson.
William Bernard (fl. 1849+) was a 19th-century sailor, miner and resident of San Francisco, better known as the notorious "Barnacle Bill" of American yore whose fictional exploits are chronicled in the ribald drinking song "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" — itself adapted from "Bollocky Bill the Sailor", a traditional folk song originally titled "Abraham Brown".
Barnacle Bill may refer to: Barnacle Bill (theme tune), the theme tune of the BBC children's TV programme Blue Peter; William Bernard (sailor), subject of the song; Barnacle Bill (Martian rock), a 40-cm rock on Mars in Ares Vallis; Barnacle Bill, a Fleischer Studios animated short film; Barnacle Bill, a film starring Archie Pitt and Joan Gardner
Walter Newton Henry Harding (1883-1973) collected over 15,000 ballads from mostly 19th-century, with many 18th-century items. [6] Among them is an undated transcript of Abraham Brown The Sailor, noted as being to the tune of My Heart and Lute. [7]
This is a list of the 109 cartoons of the Popeye the Sailor film series produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1933 to 1942. [1]During the course of production in 1941, Paramount assumed control of the Fleischer studio, removing founders Max and Dave Fleischer from control of the studio and renaming the organization Famous Studios by 1942.
Hue and Cry (1947) is generally considered to be the earliest of the cycle, and Barnacle Bill (1957) the last, [3] although some sources list Davy (1958) as the final Ealing comedy. [4] Many of the Ealing comedies are ranked among the greatest British films, and they also received international acclaim. [5] [6] [7] [8]
A hunchback fisherman named Barnacle Bill finds a young girl tied to a mast, the sole survivor of a shipwreck, and raises her into womanhood with the intention of making her his wife. [2] [3] Ten years pass and the woman, out of gratitude, promises to marry him. The hunchback hires a handsome stranger named Bob.