The Paneless Window Washer
About The Paneless Window Washer
Bluto sprays mud on the windows of an office building so tenants will hire him to clean them. Olive Oyl, a public stenographer on the twentieth floor, already has Popeye for the job. The two men fight while they hang outside, twenty stories up, each insisting he is the better washer.
Cast & crew
More about The Paneless Window Washer
Dave Fleischer directed, with Willard Bowsky as animation director. Max Fleischer and Adolph Zukor produced. Paramount Pictures released the Popeye short on January 22, 1937. Sammy Timberg wrote the music.
Themes
Making
The short is one of the New York Fleischer Popeye cartoons Paramount was releasing through the mid-1930s. The gag is a single vertical set: a facade, two scaffolds, and a long drop.
Music
Sammy Timberg composed the music, under the usual Fleischer Popeye theme arrangement.
Preservation
The short survives in the Fleischer Popeye series and is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Jack Mercer voices Popeye, Mae Questel voices Olive Oyl, and Gus Wickie voices Bluto.
- Popeye's line puts the fight twenty stories above the street.
- Olive works as a public stenographer, not a shopkeeper.
- Bluto dirties the glass himself before he offers to wash it.
Scenes
- Bluto sprays mud across a clean facade to drum up washing work.
- Popeye and Bluto swing at each other outside Olive's twentieth-floor office.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Popeye_ThePanelessWindowWasher)
