Popeye The Sailor - Ancient Fistory (1952) - Video On Demand

Popeye The Sailor - Ancient Fistory - Movie Review

A Cinderella like tale in which Olive is the princess and Popeye is the prince. Bluto is the shop owner brute who bullies Olive, only to get taught a lesson by a buff, spinach eating Prince Popeye. Popeye was created by Elzie Segar, a cartoonist who wrote the strip Thimble Theatre in the late teens and early twenties.

This strip originally had the characters of Olive Oyl, Ham Gravy (Olive's first boyfriend), Cole and Nana Oyl (Olive's parents) and Castor Oyl. On January 17, 1929, Popeye made his first appearance in the strip. His first words, a reply to the question, "Are you a sailor?" ; were  "Ja think I'm a cowboy!"  Needless to say, Popeye went on to be the most popular character in the strip and one of the greatest comic characters ever.

In the thirties, Thimble Theater was adapted into an animated cartoon series originally produced for Paramount Pictures by Fleischer Studios, run by brothers Max Fleischer (producer) and Dave Fleischer (director). Popeye made his film debut in Popeye the Sailor, a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon (Betty only makes a brief appearance). It was for this short that Sammy Lerner's famous "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" song was written. I Yam What I Yam became the first entry in the regular Popeye the Sailor series.

Fleischer Studios was dissolved in January 1942 when Max and Dave were both forced to resign from the company. Paramount purchased the studio and renamed it Famous Studios. Appointing Seymour Kneitel and Isadore Sparber as its heads, production was continued on the shorts.

Popeye The Sailor - Ancient Fistory - Cast & Crew

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