Popeye DVD set screen grabs

Jerry Beck posted screen grabs from the new Popeye DVD set - the color 2 reelers look really good: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

 

Wow!!! I'm a big fan of the Fleisher Popeye's -- especially Sinbad.

I'm eagerly awaiting this one!!!!!

 

WOW, indeed! Those frame captures are amazing. Can't wait for this set!

Cheers,
Chris

 

Historic, must-have stuff!

You know you're a cartoon superstar in the making when your very first film co-stars Betty Boop!

 

Some of those stills look like they are 3D!! Amazing.

 

Wow! Breathtakingly beautiful stills!

This set looks even better than I hoped it would! July 31st can't get here soon enough!!

 

Thanks for the links. I still find it hard to believe this is finally happening at all, much less with such a high degree of restoration. I would have been ecstatic to have them available regardless of condition and quality. This is getting good.

Looking at the "Sindbad" and "Ali Baba" screenshots, I find the intense colors a little jarring, but that's okay- if I don't get used to it I can always reduce the color intensity on my Tee-Vee.

Well, blow me down.

 

Don't forget that Fantagraphics is reissuing the original E.C. Seger POPEYE comic strips in six beautiful, oversized volumes. The first volume's already out and the second should be released shortly.

 

Some of them are "3D"... for certain special scenes in many Fleischer cartoons, 3-dimensional backgrounds were constructed with painted paper cutouts placed on a turntable... animation cels were placed in front of the background which was incrementally rotated with each exposure... the resultant effect onscreen is otherworldly, esp for cartoons made in the 1930s.

Don't do it!... I've been fortunate to see an actual production cel and background from Sindbad, firsthand, and if that one little experience is any indicator, it seems like the DVD will be rather accurate in color... there may be no one alive today who remembers an original screening, but I believe they were considerably more vibrant than the faded prints made from poor sources that have been broadcast on TV for decades.

One of the greatest cartoon series ever!... these should fly off the shelves.

 

I take your point. I should have said that I'd consider watering them down a little to make them conform to my memories, give the nostalgic warm fuzzies a little goose (as if that will be necessary). But I figured the intense colors are probably accurate, and I'll probably love them.

Can you imagine how many boomers are going to be glued to their screens with BIG sheet-eating grins on their faces? Even as children we knew those Fleischer Popeye cartoons were special, and that was while watching them on micro-screen black and white TeeVee's with rabbit-ear antenna picture quality.

So just who are Sweepea's parents, anyway?

 

And howzabout that too-close-for-comfort resemblance of Popeye's "nephews", Peepeye, Pipeye, Pupeye and Poopeye?

DNA testing may be in order here.

Maybe it will be revealed in the loads of extras included on these DVD sets.

 

Different cartoon universe. The "nephews" didn't appear in the original Fleischer cartoons; instead, they replaced Swee'Pea in the Paramount "Popeye In The U.S. Navy" cartoons.

I'm pretty sure, anyway.

But as long as we're at it, let's test Huey Dewey and Louie also; "Unca" Donald indeed. Harumph.

 

It's this kind of obscure knowledge that makes the cost of my cable Internet connection worthwhile.

 

Having grown up on the "aap" syndicated TV prints of these 'toons, all I can say is...........well.........I really can't say anything.

The bar has been raised. If only every vintage cartoon released on DVD could look like this.

Wow.

 

No-brainer purchase.....

 

Amazing restoration

 

Welllll, not quite... prior to the change of hands to the Famous Studio, the nephews showed up as early as 1940... their appearance was more coincidental, not tied to the Navy/WWII toons, nor a vehicle to replace Swee'pea (who really never went away, just showed up infrequently).
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Here we are, 80 years after the fact, and the Fleischers are about to get a little more "Famous"! That stuff looks goooood...!

 

Thanks for the heads-up and I'm definitely buying this!

 

I seem to remember that the Fleischer's actually used miniature sets to help create the depth of field and 3-D effect that was a highlight of some of the Popeye cartoons.

It certainly made some of the color Popeyes unique. About time that the Fleischer's got their due!

 

Well blow me down. That's why I said I was "pretty sure"; I had a feeling you might know more than I do.

 

Sure looks like it from some of those screen cpatures...don't think that wagon they're riding on is an illustration!

 

Lookee here, be amazed...

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/04/16/real-scenery-for-popeye/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZAbSXmeoI