{"id":77131,"date":"2023-01-03T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=77131"},"modified":"2023-01-03T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T08:14:08","slug":"max-and-dave-popeye-into-the-1940s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/max-and-dave-popeye-into-the-1940s\/","title":{"rendered":"Max and Dave: Popeye: Into the 1940’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Popeye cartoons of the 1940’s are both similar to and different from the cartoons that preceded them.\u00a0 <\/span>They seem to have been less likely to include quotes from popular songs being published by Famous Music.\u00a0 <\/span>And they don\u2019t seem to rely as heavily on the triangle of Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto.\u00a0 <\/span>The fact that they had to import Pinto Colvig from California to do Bluto\u2019s voice suggests they could not find local talent in Florida good enough to rise to the level of William Pennell or Gus Wicke.\u00a0 <\/span>(When the studio closed and the remaining personnel moved back to New York, they found Jackson Beck, who gave them what they needed.)\u00a0 <\/span>As many of the last Fleischer Popeyes have no new song material, this article will overlap into some of the earliest produced by Famous Studios upon Paramount calling in the debts of the Fleischers and taking over.\u00a0 <\/span>In many respects, the transition between the two products progressed quite seamlessly, and one wonders if the distributors even took notice of the internal upheavals taking place behind the scenes that would put Max and Dave out on their ear.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnion Pacific\u201d<\/b> (5\/24\/40) – Title playing upon the 1939 Cecil B. DeMille success for Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea as \u201cUnion Pacific\u201d, there is to be a race between Onion Pacific (represented by Popeye) and Sudden Pacific (represented by Bluto), for a lucrative state franchise for the railroad.\u00a0 <\/span>Meanwhile, Olive has promised to give the winner a kiss.\u00a0 <\/span>Bluto has to resort to sabotage to try to win, but Popeye hangs on (with the help of Olive, who proves the link between the two trains as they each balance on one rail of a trestle that will allow only one train to pass).\u00a0 <\/span>After Popeye downs the green leafy stuff, he rebuilds his train into a modern streamliner, its high fins catching the finish line banner as he passes under.\u00a0 <\/span>Popeye wins the race and gets the kiss.\u00a0 <\/span>Songs:<\/strong> \u201cWe\u2019re All Together Now\u201d (the march from the Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em> score.\u00a0 <\/span>I believe the only commercial recordings were Victor Young\u2019s within the album set produced for Decca records of the feature\u2019s score, and also within a medley performed by Ambrose on British Decca.<\/p>\n

Click audio embed below – “All Together Now” starts at 2:40<\/p><\/blockquote>\n