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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…we look back on the past year, join us for… 1. Popeye The Sailor: Volume One (1933-1938) Warner Home Video (July 31 2007), 4 discs, 540 mins plus supplements, $65… |
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Actor Cuyle Carvin becomes a cartoon
Fred M. Grandinetti, author of Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History and Jack Mercer: The Voice of Popeye and 17-year host of the New England cable TV show Drawing With Fred,… |
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Weekend Roundup! Plus The Tick is back!
…midnight! • Popeye On DVD! – we couldn’t let our own Popeye Week end without another shove in the right direction of our exclusive sailor man content! Look for our… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…star – Popeye The Sailor – was just as popular as Disney’s Mickey Mouse in his heyday, and ordered the Fleischers to enter the feature film market. Paramount had been… |
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Space Ghost, Dino Boy and the great animation DVD summer!
…all I can say to that is that in return, my highly anticipated Popeye collection lays opened but still without one single disc making it to my player while I… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…buy more of this edition and a final set with the Wakko’s Wish feature is a dead cert!), Pinky And The Brain Volume 3, The Richie Rich/Scooby Doo Hour, Popeye… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…work of E.C. Segar, the cartoonist who created Popeye, and the Max Fleischer cartoons of Popeye, Superman, and Betty Boop. I almost don’t have to mention Disney, but I always… |
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He is what he is and that's all that he is, but it's still not enough for Cartoon Network
…of Popeye’s seventy-fifth anniversary. Maybe they have one of those mandatory retirement age clauses like Disney has for its board of directors. Follow the link for more information directly from… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…The library of cartoons starring Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor, and Superman made it a viable animation house. Financial difficulties and the brothers falling out led the… |
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Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!
…many from just $5.99: • A.I. – Artificial Intelligence: 2-Disc Special Edition – $5.99 • Minority Report: Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition – $6.99 • Popeye (1980 live-action movie): Widescreen –… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…to take home such previously hard to own classics like Woody and – especially – the truly classic Popeye The Sailor: 1933-1938 collection of fantastic Fleischer shorts. And who do… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…ghost in 1942. Paramount was in the process of turning the Fleischer Brothers facility into their own in-house animation unit, and were looking for characters other than the established Popeye… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…The Fleischers had seen great fame and success from their Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman series; but their distributor, Paramount, gained the upper hand when the Fleischer’s two features (Gulliver’s… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…current Warners animation on DVD: The Richie Rich/Scooby Doo Hour, Popeye And Friends, a Lego Batman videogame, and Popeye The Sailor Volume Two: 1938 – 1940. A frankly bizarre Wizard… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…in their library. And what a collection this is! As so many will be finding out through the joys of the concurrently released Popeye The Sailor collection – itself anticipated… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…Tom and Jerry, the Super Friends, Fat Albert, He-man, the Care Bears, Popeye, G.I. Joe, the Smurfs, Scooby-Doo, and so many more cemented their places in pop culture one bowl… |
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When good cartoons go bad: review roundup…
…treated to this summer: • Warners’ Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 is a spinach-powered safe bet! • Universal’s Woody Woodpecker breaks out of the vault in a stunning set! •… |
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What the heck? Cult animation, live-action and seals in love!
…anticipated Popeye: 1933-1938 review. In the meantime, don’t forget to check out our Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss content, especially Josh’s exclusive interview with creator Phil Nibbelink, who… |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…Treasures for these very reasons, and it’s no mistake that the set made our list of the Best Of 2007, coming in just underneath Popeye at number 2. As well… |
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TMNT
…in the film reminded me unintentionally of Bluto from the CG Popeye special and as such wasn’t as imposing as he should have been) but a game attempt to bring… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…as the Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, Superman and Popeye, as well as Tex Avery’s Little Johnny Jet and Chuck Jones’ High Note, plus over an hour of special… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…soon also appear in numerous Popeye cartoons. Flip plays piano as well, accompanied on violin by a mouse that undoubtedly reminds one of Mickey, though in a skirt rather than… |
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Sony Pictures Animation unveils updated production slate
…and Genndy Tartakovsky directing Hotel Transylvania 2 eyeing September 2015, Popeye and developing an original idea entitled Can You Imagine?. The first concept art of this creation has just been… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…to full-fledged television cartoons–with glimpses along the way of Tex Avery, Popeye, and Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies, as well as Space Ghost and DinoBoy, Jonny Quest, Lippy the Lion, and more!… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…the swapping of the Nine Old Men to the new generation; Popeye, Robert Altman’s 1980 live-action take on the spinach-guzzling sailor (Robin Williams); and Treasure Planet, last year’s box office… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…Ten, but this year we were grateful and surprised as old favorites (Captain Caveman, Popeye 60s Classics, Yogi’s Gang, etc.) and obscure finds (Roman Holidays, Help! It’s The Hair Bear… |
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Happy Feet Two
…paying tribute to him during his 1930s heyday, while in the following years the likes of Popeye The Sailor and Woody Woodpecker (as voiced by Mel Blanc) had a big… |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…The other is Popeye. It’s a character and world with such rich mythology, and everyone here at Sony is excited about being able to re-introduce him to new generations around… |
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Maleficent
…being its collaboration in 1980 with Paramount on the ill-fated but underrated Popeye feature with Robin Williams. In the 1990s the Studio continued with many more of these kinds of… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…contemporaries put out. Keep in mind we’re talking about a time that predated Bugs Bunny; and Popeye was yet to become an animated cartoon star. Really, only Disney had successfully… |
