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Popeye, the Sailor Man; Official Thread
Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 06:53 AM (2,121 Views)
copperhead
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members, does anyone recall a popeye cartoon when bluto or brutus steals al the spinach and is busting up popeye when someone in the audience throws a can of spinach into the cartoon [of course popeye sucks it in his pipe] and whips his arch rival---i remember a live audience with a boy perhaps crying--i viewed maybe twice about possibly 25-30 years ago---ralph g
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rodney
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Sounds like you're confusing two cartoons. The latter is Adventures of Popeye. Not sure what the former is.
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thadk
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The cartoon is definitely Famous Studios' "How Green is My Spinach", which did indeed, towards the climax, have a live-action boy in the movie audience throw Popeye a can of spinach.

It's a great cartoon.
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thanks, thad, i remember it and it was great---you are indeed the cartoon aristotle---coppy
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Watch The 7 year itch and you will get to see a brief glimps of the cartoon
Dont Miss the next thrilled packed episode of Next Week Productions
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Actually, Tom Ewell IS in this cartoon...
http://thad-k.blogspot.com/2008/02/final-triumpfk.html
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It's no big secret that Warners was disappointed with the sales of their 4-disc set of classic Fleischer Popeye cartoons, so they've scaled back Vol. 2 and hope the lower price will help.

Popeye the Sailor: Vol. 2 1938-1940 will be released on June 17 and include 31 cartoons and some bonus material. The SRP is $34.98 so the preorder price should be about $22 I would guess. Not bad.
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Feb 22 2008, 04:08 PM
It's no big secret that Warners was disappointed with the sales of their 4-disc set of classic Fleischer Popeye cartoons

It's certainly news to me. Of course, they usually ask me to go out and get sodas, Cheetoes and Ho-Ho's when that part of the agenda is discussed in the meetings.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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rodney
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Yeah, I didn't know that either.
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thadk
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I don't think it's because they were disappointed. They just fear of losing buyers on a second volume because all of the cartoons are in B/W. They did the split to make it cheaper for collectors.
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This blurb at TVShowsOnDVD.com says the collection's been cut back because of the amount of work involved to restore the cartoons:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Popeye-Volume-2/9048
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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TV Show has got it wrong.
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It's sad if the public doesn't accept black and white cartoons any more, but it's natural. My grandkids loved all cartoons until the Warners sets came out, but now they won't even watch the Disney shorts, let alone Popeye. They won't read the Little Lulu books either, because they're black and white. Fortunately, there are black and white movies they'll accept, but they won't watch silents, which distresses me. Not even Chaplin. I wish somebody would reprint the old Deems Taylor book -- it might work on them as it worked on me.
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Color? Ya want color on this thing? Well, okay... one of the bonuses on Popeye Vol. 2 will be a restored and remastered Gulliver's Travels (1939), the first (of two) Fleischer features, the second full-length animated animation feature (after Snow White, before Pinocchio), and one of this reporter's faves.

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Actually, I believe there will be at least one color Popeye cartoon in that set...the third of the 2-reel full color Popeye cartoons. Which one is that, Popeye as Aladdin? I forget...
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