Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
About Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Sindbad, voiced by Gus Wickie, rules an island of captured beasts and calls himself the most remarkable fellow. Popeye (Jack Mercer), Olive Oyl (Mae Questel), and J. Wellington Wimpy (Lou Fleischer) sail past, singing. Sindbad's roc wrecks the ship and carries Olive off. Popeye and Wimpy swim ashore. Popeye fights the roc, a two-headed giant named Boola, and Sindbad. Spinach turns the fight, and he takes the boast for himself. Wimpy chases a duck with a meat grinder and loses his hamburger to it.
Cast & crew
More about Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Dave Fleischer directed and Max Fleischer produced this Technicolor Popeye Color Special, the first of three. Paramount released it on 27 November 1936. It is a two-reeler. Uncredited story work is credited on Wikipedia to Joe Stultz, Bill Turner, Jack Ward, and Izzy Sparber. Bradley Barker voices the roc.
Themes
Making
Fleischer used the Stereoptical Process, also called the setback tabletop, building modeled sets so the cels played in front of three-dimensional backgrounds.
Technique
The Stereoptical Process places the drawn characters against miniature sets instead of flat paintings.
Music
Sammy Timberg wrote the title-song music and Bob Rothberg the lyrics. Sammy Lerner is also credited.
Preservation
The Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry in 2004.
Notes
- Wikipedia times the print at 16 minutes 33 seconds.
- Animators listed are Willard Bowsky, Lillian Friedman, George Germanetti, Edward Nolan, and Orestes Calpini.
- It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons, for 1936. It did not win.
- The Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry in 2004.
- Sindbad is played as Bluto under that name.
Awards
- National Film Registry (2004)
Scenes
- The roc lifts Olive off the ship and drops the boat.
- Popeye eats spinach and fights Sindbad after the roc and Boola.
- A duck takes the hamburger Wimpy was grinding.
Influenced by
- Sinbad the Sailor, from One Thousand and One Nights
Also available
- Internet Archive (Popeye_meetsSinbadtheSailor)
