Unpredictable as Weather (Part 21)
Pull up any handy umbrella, and don’t follow that old song’s advice about turning it upside-down – it just doesn’t work.
Pull up any handy umbrella, and don’t follow that old song’s advice about turning it upside-down – it just doesn’t work.
Disney, Fleischer, Warner and Lantz provide the weather action this week. Button up!
To celebrate Popeye’s 90th Anniversary as an animated superstar we thought we’d try something unique: newspaper clippings!
Summer season has arrived – are you still undecided as to what to do for vacation?
1937 provided another eventful year for cartoon extremes of weather and climate conditions, though not necessarily tracking any similar events in the real world.
Their were endless possibilities in the combination of Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto – as well as in the music played in the background.
A notable change in the 1940s was the replacement of musical director Sammy Timberg by Winston Sharples, who had a habit of dipping into the Famous Music reliquary.
When Paramount foreclosed on Max Fleischer’s studio, they certainly had great hopes for Popeye. He was their bread and butter (despite wartime rationing).
Today marks the tenth year of this Cartoon Research blog in this format. Let’s celebrate with a special look at “Popeye The Ace of Space”!
A list of just some of the “love”-ly animated television special offerings through the years.