Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940, Volume 2
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Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940, Volume 2 is the second of a series of theatrical Popeye cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios to be released on a DVD set by Warner Home Video. This two-DVD set is scheduled to be released on June 17, 2008.[1]
This collection has 31 cartoons of which 30 are black-and-white and the remaining is the last of the two-reel color Popeye Specials, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp. There are also special features included in each disc.[2] The cartoons in this collection are arranged in the order they were released to theaters.
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[edit] Background
On October of 1938, Fleischer Studios moved from New York City to a new studio they built in Miami, Florida with money loaned from their distributor Paramount Pictures. The reasons for the move were that the studio needed additional space required to make the Fleischers' first feature film Gulliver's Travels, the bitter 1937 labor dispute at the studio and tax breaks from the city of Miami. It is generally believed that Wotta Nitemare was the first Popeye cartoon to be produced from start to finish in Miami. It's also the first of four 1939 cartoons not to feature the familiar ship door titles as it was generally believed that the ship door artwork was misplaced during the move.[3]. Also significant was that Mae Questel refused to move to Miami so Margie Hines was the voice of Olive Oyl during the period that the cartoons were produced in Miami. The 1939 cartoon Cops is Always Right was the final Popeye cartoon to bear Paramount head Adolph Zukor's name.[4] All subsequent theatrical Popeye cartoons would say "Paramount presents..." TV syndicator Associated Artists Productions replaced those titles with new titles while keeping the Zukor titles intact.[5] The original Paramount titles were restored for this collection.
[edit] DVD listing
Unless otherwise indicated, these are one reel black and white cartoons.
Dave Fleischer received director credit on every cartoon in this set.
[edit] Disc one
[edit] 1938
- I Yam Love Sick
- Plumbin' Is A Pipe
- Popeye the Sailor with the Jeep
- Bulldozing the Bull
- Mutiny Ain't Nice
- Goonland
- A Date to Skate
[edit] 1939
- Cops is Always Right
- Customers Wanted (compilation film)
- Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (in Technicolor, two reel)
- Leave Well Enough Alone
- Wotta Nitemare
- Ghosks Is The Bunk
- Hello-How Am I?
- It's The Natural Thing to Do
[edit] Special features
Popeye Popumentaries:
- Eugene the Jeep: A Breed of His Own
- Poopdeck Pappy: The Nasty Old Man and the Sea
- O-Re-Mi: Mae Questel and the Voices of Olive Oyl
- Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story.
[edit] Disc two
[edit] 1939
- Never Sock a Baby
[edit] 1940
- Shakespearean Spinach
- Females is Fickle
- Stealin' Ain't Honest
- Me Feelins is Hurt
- Onion Pacific
- Wimmin is a Myskery
- Nurse Mates
- Fightin' Pals
- Doing Impossikible Stunts
- Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
- Puttin' on the Act
- Popeye Meets William Tell
- My Pop, My Pop
- Popeye the Sailor with Poopdeck Pappy
- Popeye Presents Eugene the Jeep
[edit] Special features
Popeye Popumentry: Men of Spinach and Steel.
From the Vault:
- Paramount presents Popular Science: behind the scenes at Fleischer's Miami studio--a 1938 Paramount short
- The Mechanical Monsters--a 1941 Superman short
- Early Max Fleischer Art Gallery
- Females is Fickle pencil test
- Stealin' Ain't Honest storyboard reel
- I'm Popeye the Sailor Man vintage audio recording
- Michael Sporn interviews Jack Mercer.
[edit] See also
- Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1
- List of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoons (Fleischer Studios)
