Posted on 07/31/2007 7:18:09 PM PDT by wolfinator
We just bought the newly remastered Popeye DVD set. If you're a fan, you must see this. It has all the old black and white cartoons from 1933-1938. The clarity is so sharp and the sound is outstanding. Many of the toons have optional commentaries, which really add to the experience.
Strange thing, I guess, is that it's put out by Warner Bros. I didn't know they owned the rights! But bravo to whoever made this happen.
Saw this at Comic-Con and it looks great. They gave us a sailor hat to promote the DVD.
That’s interesting. Commentaries by whom?
I had a great animated gif of Popeye, but he died from eating contaminated spinach so I deleted it, lol.
Not quite in the ‘theme of things’ here!
see people, its stuff like this that makes bill o reilly hate our freedom.
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So where can I get it? How much does it cost and how many cartoons are on the DVD?
Popeye was the best non PC cartoon of all time.....
The commentaries are by other cartoonists, animators, film historians, and some people connected to Dave Fleischer. Some of them are straight forward information, but a couple are really funny—in particular, one done by a team of Mexican cartoonists, a man and a woman, who do some current thing about a tiger. Sorry, don’t have it in front of me now. But they’re drawing connections between one of the cartoons and a scene from Kill Bill. Really interesting!
I’ve been wondering since I first saw a commercial for the set, has it been edited to be more PC for our times? I love the old cartoons, but they never show them in their original versions on television.
When I was growing up in SoCal there was a station in LA that played a couple hours of Popeye cartoons on Sunday(?) mornings. The host would draw Popeye characters on a big art pad and tell stories about the history of the cartoons.
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It’s a 4 disk set and I paid 44.99 at Best Buy.
Are these the original b&w E.C. Segar cartoons? IIRC they start with the credits displayed on an opening and closing deck doors...
Last week on a long trip my kid and I listened to a Roger Miller CD. At the end of “Kansas City Star”, he says, “Stay tuned - we got a Popeye cartoon comin’ up in a minute”. Of course, my 17 year-old, in spite of his good tast in music, had no clue who Popeye is. He loves Gordon Lightfoot, too, but that line about “dance all night to the 78s” required a history lesson as well.
Wasn’t there some pretty anti-Japanese stuff during the war? Are they going to cut this out or let it be?
These are all uncut. There is a disclaimer at the beginning saying how bad racial stereotypes are, but at least there’s no Whoopie Goldberg, like in the Bugs Bunny DVDs.
Included here is the famous scene where Popeye punches an Indian chief who then turns into Ghandi.
Yes, the originals, all uncut.
Thanks. It just made my list of things I want.
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