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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.
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]
The first Popeye cartoon to use the RCA Photophone sound system; The last Popeye cartoon produced at the Fleischer/Famous studio in Miami, Florida. Famous moved to New York City (the original home of Fleischer Studios) in late 1943. A restored version was prepared for The Popeye Show, but the show was cancelled before it could air
Popeye's theme song, titled "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man", composed by Sammy Lerner in 1933 for Fleischer's first Popeye the Sailor cartoon, [70] has become forever associated with the sailor. " The Sailor's Hornpipe " has often been used as an introduction to Popeye's theme song.
Poor quality transfers of these three cartoons made from old, faded prints have been released on several previous Popeye collections on VHS tape and DVD. The cartoon, fully restored with the original Paramount mountain logo opening and closing titles, is available officially on disc four of Popeye the Sailor: 1933–1938, Volume 1.
Popeye is coasting back to the big screen. The iconic sailor man and spinach chugger, who first appeared in comic strips in the late 1920s, will be the subject of a new live-action feature film ...
Mercer voiced Popeye for more than 40 years, first for the Fleischers, then for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoons (1942–1957), then for a series of television cartoons for King Features Syndicate (1961), and finally for a Saturday-morning cartoon show (1978-1983) produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
The Fleischers scored successful hits with the Betty Boop cartoons and the Popeye the Sailor series. Popeye's popularity during the 1930s rivaled Mickey Mouse at times, and Popeye fan clubs sprang up across the country in imitation of Mickey's fan clubs; in 1935, polls showed that Popeye was even more popular than Mickey Mouse. [65]