Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1 (released July 31, 2007) features Fleischer cartoons released from 1933 through early 1938 and contains the color Popeye specials Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves. POPEYE IN COLOR On December 11, Warner Bros. releases "Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s Volume 1" on DVD and Blu-ray, marking the first time Popeye's original theatrical color cartoons are made available for home viewing by the public.
The Paramount Popeye cartoons were so popular that in 1937, the city of Crystal City, Texas, erected an official "Popeye" statue, marking the first time in world history a city had erected a statue in honor of a cartoon character. 4) The cartoon Popeye was originally voiced (1933-1935) by "Red Pepper Sam" (a.k.a. William Costello).
He maintained that Popeye was rather vulgar back in his day. So that begs the question was my dead grandfather a M.E. Effected as well or did they really go out of there way to hide the fact Popeye was for adults back in the day? In 1936, Popeye starred in the first of three two-reel color films, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor.
The film earned an Academy Award nomination, but was beaten by a short from the Walt Disney Studios. However, Popeye would get his revenge on Disney when it was announced the sailor's popularity outdistanced Disney's Mickey Mouse. Paramount's Famous Studios assumed production of the series in 1942.
Eventually, Popeye and his crew would be featured in 234 theatrical cartoons. The series began in black and white but by the end of 1943 switched to color. When these same cartoons debuted on television in September 1956, they were a tremendous hit.
Popeye and his cohorts, including Olive Oyl, Bluto, Wimpy, and Swee'pea. Popeye comes to life and shows the tyke scenes from his earlier adventures. In the colored version, the live-action footage is left in black and white, but the animated scenes are redrawn in color.
The last five minutes of the film get thrown out of sync with the animation due to the colorization process. A classic film ruined by color. This article is about the character.
For the franchise as a whole, see Popeye franchise. For other meanings, see Popeye (disambiguation). Popeye is the main protagonist of the Popeye franchise, a sailor character created in 1929 by Elzie Crisler Segar for his Thimble Theatre comic strip (subsequently renamed after Popeye himself).
Initially introduced into Segar's (then long-established) strip. Why is this Popeye series of 220 color cartoon episodes often viewed in such a negative light? For one, it stars Popeye the Sailor. The beloved character initially made his debut on January 17, 1929, in E.C.
Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip. Despite all of Popeye's success in the print medium, his fame skyrocketed when Fleischer Studios used his image in a series of black & white. When Popeye was first introduced into the comic strip _Thimble Theater_ in 1929, he was just a hired hand, a minor character.
But just a few years later, he had taken over the comic strip, and beginning in 1933 the Fleischer Studio began turning out Popeye theatrical cartoons to capitalize on its popularity. (And if anyone knows of an immensely successful cartoon character more unlikely than a.