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Popeye, a gruff but good-hearted sailor, arrives at the small coastal town of Sweethaven while searching for his missing father. He rents a room at the Oyl family's boarding house, where the Oyls plan to have their daughter, Olive, become engaged to Captain Bluto, a powerful, perpetually angry bully who manages the town in the name of the mysterious Commodore.
Popeye the Sailor is an American animated series of short films based on the Popeye comic strip character created by E. C. Segar.In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios, based in New York City, adapted Segar's characters into a series of theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. [1]
Popeye was one of several newspaper cartoons that the Fleischers animated (the others included Otto Soglow's The Little King and Carl Thomas Anderson's Henry). [4] In order to increase the chance of Popeye's success, the short was billed as a Betty Boop cartoon, though she is only featured briefly. The short has also been released as Betty Boop ...
Popeye the Sailor: July 14 [3] Seymour Kneitel Roland Crandall: First screen appearances of Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto; A Betty Boop cartoon; Some TV versions are edited so as to remove scenes depicting racial stereotypes of African Americans; Billy Costello was the first voice of Popeye. 1 I Yam What I Yam: September 29 [3] Seymour Kneitel ...
Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea and Wimpy were featured prominently in the cartoon movie Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter, which debuted on October 7, 1972, as one of the episodes of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. In this cartoon, Brutus also appears as a turban-wearing employee of the nemesis, Dr. Morbid Grimsby.
Seeing Popeye covered by the sail, Olive shrieks (thinking Popeye is a ghost), grabs a quartermaster's baton, and starts clubbing Popeye with it, but Popeye's shouts make her realize her mistake. Seeing that all their haunting isn't working, the ghosts run towards Popeye and Olive while wielding swords and shouting out what they intend to do ...
Final black-and-white cartoon in the Popeye film series [5] The booing gag was reused by Popeye in Popeye's Premiere. The redrawn print incorrectly uses the "Max Fleischer" title card of Popeye The Sailor Man. Final entry of the 1942-43 film season. 123 Her Honor the Mare: November 5 Jim Tyer Ben Solomon TBA Jack Mercer Jack Ward Izzy Sparber [6]
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (full film). Sindbad the Sailor (intended to be an alternate version of Popeye's old nemesis Bluto) lives on an island where he keeps loads of creatures that he had captured during his adventures, where he proclaims himself, in song, to be the greatest sailor, adventurer, and lover in the world and "the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow," a claim ...