Redrawn Mistake in House Builder Upper

[Mike]

I was watching "The House Builder Upper" on Acme Hour the other day, and noticed how badly redrawn it was. However, there was one pretty big mistake that sticks out in my mind. When Wimpy is painting the floor in the house, you see the paint fill in on the floor without Wimpy actually painting it! It's pretty funny.

Has anyone else noticed any other big mistakes in the redrawn "House Builder Upper"? I've noticed that the redrawn Popeyes are pretty hit and miss. Sometimes the drawers did a pretty good (though never great) job, while in other cartoons the redrawing looks about on par with the redrawn LTs from the late '60s.

Still, redrawn or not, "The House Builder Upper" is a great Popeye cartoon. It was nice to take a break from the Popeye vs. Bluto routine. Popeye and Wimpy were a great comedy team in this cartoon. It's hilarious.

Mike

[Patrick McCart]

The mistake in "Clean Shaven Man" frightened me...

I was watching it one day, and I say "Wimby's Bber Shop" on the window!!!!

Also, the redrawing in "Nix On Hypnotricks" almost looks like a computer colorization...but the opening and closing titles give it away.

Come on, Time-Warner, colorize those Popeye's digitally...you know you want to.

[J Lee]

The cell/background set up when Popeye emerges from the rubble and eats the Spinach moves when it's not supposed to, and the bricks-on-cell are a completely different color tone from the rest of the bricks, a problem that didn't become common in animation until the made-for-TV influences hit in the 1960s.

Seymour Kneitel tended to do the "funny" Popeyes like "The House Builder-Upper," which featured more straight-out gags and Jack Mercer mumblings. He also used Bluto, of course, Willard Bowsky did the ones that featured the more menacing Bulto -- his Bluto was as likely to strangle Olive as he was to beat up Popeye (uh oh, violence against women, call the PC Police!), while Dave Tendlar took a middle-of-the-road course. The three different treatments under Dave Fleischer helped provide variety to the series, the same way Bugs was treated differently by Freleng, Jones and McKimson during the late 1940s and 1950s.

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by J Lee
The cell/background set up when Popeye emerges from the rubble and eats the Spinach moves when it's not supposed to, and the bricks-on-cell are a completely different color tone from the rest of the bricks, a problem that didn't become common in animation until the made-for-TV influences hit in the 1960s.



To me it looks like Popeye shrinks a little after he eats his spinach, with the background staying the same, vs. a zoom-out of the whole setup in the B&W original.