Factotum Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Another installment in the Popeye DVD releases is coming out soon, this covering the years 1938-40, and will include some of the best from Fliescher studios at twilight. What a grand collection this will be when it's done. I can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Chuck Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 This is one character I haven't collected yet because I think I'm almost solely interested in the Fleischer years - that great Sinbad one and the Allibaba one. I haven't seen those in many years but I've seen a Fleischer's retrospective of their other works and was amazed to learn they were using 3, 4 and even 9-pane backgrounds for their work. Some amazing effects, those guys. I think the effects of modern CGI cartoons are pretty great until I pull out PINOCCHIO or some of the Fleischer works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I love POPEYE and I have almost all the old cartoons recorded - not the ones where he wears the white U.S. Navy suit--the original cartoons were hilarious--and my favorite is the one with the organ-grinders monkey - also I totaly dislike Popeye's Pappy.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Poopdeck Pappy wasn't introduced into the comic strip until very late in the life of it's creator, Segar. There aren't that many of the animated cartoons that have him in them, either. He seems to drop from the series entirely for most of the 1940's, and I think only one or two in the 50's. One of those has certainly been hard to see over the years, "POPEYE'S PAPPY" (1952) if not impossible, because the locale is set in a jungle, in which Pappy has made himself king of a tribe of cannibals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazykatclassics Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Actually, the second volume of Popeye(a possible June 2008 release)will contain the rest of the entire b&w Popeye cartoons from the Flesicher Studios and the entire b&w output of the Famous Studios releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 The second set is not coming out in the giant collection the first did, in fact it's only going to be one disc this time, covering the years 1938-40. The last of the Fliescher cartoons was BABY WANTS A BOTTLESHIP (1942). The subsequent releases made by Paramount's cartoon studio, Famous, were made by Fliescher's staff, and are still quite funny, at least for a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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