Acme Hour - 10/9/01

[Jon Cooke]

"Grin and Share It" (MGM, Droopy)
"Private Eye Popeye" (Popeye)
"Detouring America" - aap opening, edited
"Bah Wilderness" (MGM, Barney Bear)
"Wacky Blackout" - B&W
"The Bear That Wasn't" (MGM)


-Jon

[Cartman]

Was PRIVATE EYE POPEYE shown in its B&W form or was it colorized/redrawn?

[lislebartman]

"Private Eye Popeye" was produced in Technicolor; no B&W version exists.

[DR. BELCH]

It was the colorized Fleischer version...although I'll admit it was one of the better redrawns, if it was one, I've seen. I especially liked the lighting effects, with the scene turning green when the emerald's box was opened, and the end where Popeye's blush then fills the screen. I actually find it hard to imagine that one in black and white. I have this one on a tape with three other Fleischers: "Patriotic Popeye", "Parlez Vous Woo", and the one where Popeye and Bluto open rival restaurants and compete at great lengths for Wimpy's business.

The theme of the first three shorts was "Gold and Jewels", with all cartoons about/referencing precious substances. "Bah" and "tBtW" were bear-themed shorts...and at a time like this, with hawk sentiments flying about, the B&W "Wacky Blackout" was a very appropriate cartoon to air (watch for the early Tweety prototype in one scene).

Incidentally, there was a fella at A & GT that was looking for a copy of "The Bear that Wasn't"...I hope he was watching last night.

[lislebartman]

I must reiterate:

"Private Eye Popeye" was not produced in B&W; it was made in Technicolor.:p

[J Lee]

"Private Eye Popeye" 1954 -- Techincolor.

For it to have been produced in B&W -- meaning before September 1943 -- you would then have to assume that Avery stole the idea of a criminal being hunted by some guy who shows up everywhere from the Fleischers and not the other way around.