New "Classic" Popeye Show

[bozo]

Hey, a new "classic" Popeye Show..."I'm Popeye!" will begin on Cartoon Network, October 28 at 1am/et. (after Adult Swim) It will feature some amazing cartoons (as if I have to tell you) and I hope you guys dig it.

[Jack]

That's wonderful! How'd you find out? Does it have just Fletcher Popeye, or both Fletcher and Famous?



Jack:D

[bozo]

I've been working on this show for months and just got the start date yesterday. The first thirteen shows are probably about two/thirds Fleischer.

[barnyarddawg]

Originally posted by Jack

How'd you find out?

Jack:D

If you remember, bozo was the producer of the Bob Clampett Show, so if he is allowed to do the same things he was allowed to do with the Clampett show, this will breath new life into the treatment of Popeye on CN. Thanks for your efforts bozo, we truly appreciate them!

[Jack]

Oh, I remeber now. That's wonderful! If it is even remotely like the Bob Clampett Show, it will be great. I'm even more excited now. For a while I was worried it would be like "The Chuck Jones Show" (edited, time compressed cartoons with no trivia)



Jack:D :D

[lislebartman]

You must be joking!

New "Toonheads" episodes plus plus the classic Popeye show? All within a week's time frame?

I'm cool with that.:cool:

[Thad Komorowski]

Kick *****! Wow, I hope we'll get the lost Popeyes in this show... Well, not lost, but the rarest. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for "The Island Fling" and "Popeye's Pappy"...:D:D:D:D

-Thad:D:D:D

[Jack]

and according to the Cartoon Research page, they will be restored, uncut, with original Paramount titles! I guess it's good that I didn't tape these from Late Nite Black and White:D


Jack:D

[Argus Sventon]

We've been hearing rumors about this for months, but now it's official.

YES!!!!!!!!!!

[bozo]

thanks, barnyarddawg...there's no real contraversial titles in the first thirteen, but i think there's lots of other stuff about the show for you to love...

[Rob]

Originally posted by bozo
Hey, a new "classic" Popeye Show..."I'm Popeye!" will begin on Cartoon Network, October 28 at 1am/et. (after Adult Swim) It will feature some amazing cartoons (as if I have to tell you) and I hope you guys dig it.

I can't believe it! After all these years...That's great news. Can't wait to see THE PANELESS WINDOW WASHER, THE SPINACH OVERTURE, BROTHERLY LOVE, A DREAM WALKIN', GOONLAND, and the rest. And with original titles to boot!

FYI, Jerry Beck has a sample title frame on Cartoon Research.

[Popeye]

Yahooooooooooooooooooooooo!

"Spinach for Britain" is no longer going to be the only B&W Popeye I have with original titles!

[Patrick McCart]

By restored...does that mean that the entire cartoons were restored?

If so, I'd like to know who did the restoration...nitrate film is awful tricky to use!

[Nelson]

Considering I have almost all the B&W Popeye cartoons from the Fleischer/Famous studios, I will defitnely tape all thirteen episodes.

Now what also would be great, if LNB&W starts to show the Bosko and Buddy cartoons...Now taht will be a killer Sunday/Early Monday line up...:cool: :cool: :cool: :D :D :D

[Dub]

YES!!! ^___^

Speak of the devil! :D And right after I make a Popeye post at that. I am SO taping every last minute of this. ^^ Popeye has been mistreated for SO LONG that it'll be good to see one of my personal favorites back in action! :) I've NEVER had the pleasure of seeing a CORRECTLY done B&W Popeye.

Ever. :)


I suppose those rumors of the King Features Popeyes may be true as well after all.

As for the show and timeslot - I'm glad it'll have trivia. So little is known among watchers. And as a 2-D animation major in college I'm gonna lap up every minute of this ^__^

I wouldnt complain about the timeslot as well. Its perfect where it is. And I say that simply because if CN were to air uncut popeys during the day when "stupid politically correct parents and those of the Ted Turner ilk" can pick them apart, gawd knows what would happen.

Keep them late when you have more freedom in what you can do and if it works we can all get what we want in some form or fashion if youre optimistic. This is REALLY A BIG STEP for CN...And I'm gonna be hoping it succeeds in spades :)

[J Lee]

By restored...does that mean that the entire cartoons were restored?
If so, I'd like to know who did the restoration...nitrate film is awful tricky to use!

Restored in this case can mean one of two things -- either they went back and found the original nitrate prints and did the dubs from those, which is pretty tricky, or they went back to the AAP prints that were uncut, found some of the original opening and closing titles from other sources (we already know they have the original title from "Protekt the Weakerest" since it was colorized in 1987) and matched the corrent opening titles with the release season when they made the new video dubs.

Since Jerry Beck's website mentions the "I'm Popeye" line came from "Hello, How Am I?" I really want to see if they found the original titles to restore from that cartoon and the three others from 1939 ("Wotta Nightmare," "It's the Natural Thing to Do" and "Ghosks is the Bunk") that were given the weird opening title cards.

[Sogturtle]

Tis all wonderful news!!!!:D But woe and alas... NO "Popeye Ala Mode" (color-1945)(Famous)... "Dem's da conditions dat prevails":) Will have to seek solace in my own print of it... Such is Life (and Time and Warner and... :))

[Argus Sventon]

Originally posted by J Lee


Restored in this case can mean one of two things -- either they went back and found the original nitrate prints and did the dubs from those, which is pretty tricky, or they went back to the AAP prints that were uncut, found some of the original opening and closing titles from other sources (we already know they have the original title from "Protekt the Weakerest" since it was colorized in 1987) and matched the corrent opening titles with the release season when they made the new video dubs.

Since Jerry Beck's website mentions the "I'm Popeye" line came from "Hello, How Am I?" I really want to see if they found the original titles to restore from that cartoon and the three others from 1939 ("Wotta Nightmare," "It's the Natural Thing to Do" and "Ghosks is the Bunk") that were given the weird opening title cards.

The opening title cards from the pre-39 cartoons were left intact by aap as the byline read either "Max Fleischer presents" or "ADOLPH ZUKOR Presents A MAX FLEISCHER Cartoon". NTA and AAP both left these title cards intact, as they must have theorized that no one would remember that Adolph Zukor was connected with Paramount Pictures. Even the U.M.&M. refilmed opening title of "Greedy Humpty Dumpty" has an "Adolph Zukor presents" byline.

The title card that is on Jerry's site is from the 1939-1941 period, when the words "Paramount Presents" replaced the Adolph Zukor byline. By now, the name "Paramount Pictures, Inc." was now in the Paramount font, instead of all caps.

I'm excited about seeing these cartoons, in their original black and white glory, with the 3-D backgrounds intact and with restored title cards.