Popeye On Television: 1970-1990
It is much more difficult to revive a classic animated character than studios imagine, despite the many examples to show them the error of their ways.
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Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1955
If you weren’t Famous Studios or (surprise!) UPA you were not nominated this year. Everyone else: Nominated!
Popeye Goes Latin – Part 2
W’ere On Our Way To Rio was the third of the Technicolor Popeye’s – and one could argue the most lushly-animated cartoon Famous Studios ever produced.
Popeye Goes Latin – 1
Cartoons discovered the appeal of the Conga Dance, as demonstrated by its appearance in shorts from Warner Bros.. Terrytoons… and yes, Max Fleischer.
From “Abbott & Costello” to “Insect to Injury”
I’m always impressed when I see a Famous Studios cartoon in 35mm Technicolor. Insect to Injury is worth taking a second look at. While not the top of the 50s Popeyes, it’s still a lot of fun.
Popeye Dances Again in “Morning Noon and Night Club” (1937)
Popeye and Olive Oyl take to the dance floor again in 1937’s Morning Noon and Night Club. However, the dance inspiration in this cartoon was rather different from the last outing.
Music in Popeye’s “The Dance Contest” (1934)
Right from the release of “Popeye the Sailor” in 1933, Paramount knew they had a hit on their hands.
Two (Funny) Faces have I – and Popeye / Betty Boop ‘Special’ set
Oddly, there are two versions of Funny Face. The one still extant in 35mm is a ‘second’ version of the film, with closeups of the Betty Boop-esqe character redrawn, changing her hair style.
Popeye in “It’s The Natual Thing To Do” (1939)
A fond memory of the days when running vintage black and white theatrical cartoons on children’s television was “the natural thing to do”!
“Organ Grinder’s Swing” (1937)
One wonders if Fleischer’s Organ Grinders Swing could be interpreted as a protest against Mayor La Guardia’s then-recent decree that organ grinders be outlawed in the City of New York.
