Popeye finally bursting out on DVD
06-07-06, 11:34 AM
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Popeye finally bursting out on DVD
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060607/en_nm/popeye_dc_1
This is good news, but I am only interested in the early years (30's & 40's and maybe some of the 50's), the rest is junk.
Chris
By Thomas K. Arnold
Tue Jun 6, 8:56 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After years of living in the public domain, Popeye is going legit.
The spinach-eating sailor man is coming to DVD next year in a big, big way -- even bigger than Brutus, Popeye's larger-than-life nemesis.
Warner Home Video on Tuesday announced a far-reaching agreement with Hearst Entertainment and King Features Syndicate that gives the studio exclusive worldwide home entertainment distribution rights to all Popeye theatrical shorts and TV cartoons.
"During the entire videocassette era, the classic Popeye library was not available for legitimate release because of rights issues that have finally been resolved," said George Feltenstein, senior VP classic catalog marketing at Warner Home Video.
The distribution deal covers all the original 231 Popeye animated shorts released theatrically by Paramount Pictures from 1933-57. Warner also has licensed the exclusive rights to 220 Popeye made-for-TV animated shorts produced from 1960-62, 65 episodes of "The Continuing Adventures of Popeye," produced from 1978-81 (and consisting of 161 animated shorts) and 26 "Popeye & Son" shorts produced in 1987.
The Popeye theatrical slate includes 120 black-and-white shorts (106 of them produced by Fleischer Studios, the other 14 by Famous Studios) and 111 Technicolor cartoons (three produced by Fleischer Studios and 108 produced by Famous Studios).
Warner Home Video said it will start work immediately on preservation and restoration.
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Tue Jun 6, 8:56 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After years of living in the public domain, Popeye is going legit.
The spinach-eating sailor man is coming to DVD next year in a big, big way -- even bigger than Brutus, Popeye's larger-than-life nemesis.
Warner Home Video on Tuesday announced a far-reaching agreement with Hearst Entertainment and King Features Syndicate that gives the studio exclusive worldwide home entertainment distribution rights to all Popeye theatrical shorts and TV cartoons.
"During the entire videocassette era, the classic Popeye library was not available for legitimate release because of rights issues that have finally been resolved," said George Feltenstein, senior VP classic catalog marketing at Warner Home Video.
The distribution deal covers all the original 231 Popeye animated shorts released theatrically by Paramount Pictures from 1933-57. Warner also has licensed the exclusive rights to 220 Popeye made-for-TV animated shorts produced from 1960-62, 65 episodes of "The Continuing Adventures of Popeye," produced from 1978-81 (and consisting of 161 animated shorts) and 26 "Popeye & Son" shorts produced in 1987.
The Popeye theatrical slate includes 120 black-and-white shorts (106 of them produced by Fleischer Studios, the other 14 by Famous Studios) and 111 Technicolor cartoons (three produced by Fleischer Studios and 108 produced by Famous Studios).
Warner Home Video said it will start work immediately on preservation and restoration.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
This is good news, but I am only interested in the early years (30's & 40's and maybe some of the 50's), the rest is junk.
Chris
06-07-06, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by mrpayroll
This is good news, but I am only interested in the early years (30's & 40's and maybe some of the 50's), the rest is junk.
06-07-06, 01:49 PM
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Don't you think WB will edit out all the "excessive violence", smoking, double entendre, and non-politically correct humor? I guess they'll have to digitally edit out his pipe.
06-07-06, 02:32 PM
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At the HTF Warner Chat last night, they said the Popeye shorts will be released in chronological order and treated the same way they treat the Looney Tunes Golden Collection releases. Also, they will be staggered in the release schedule (Looney Tunes - Fall, Popeye - Spring).
06-07-06, 05:08 PM
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When they showed these on Cartoon Network, they were intact. The show came on late at night so they avoided cutting.
The most notorious one was where Popeye and Shorty fall into a furnace, and everything is pitch black after Shorty blows out the candles on Popeye's cake. He then starts singing "Happy Birthday To My Pal", a shot's heard and the flash of a gun going off, and then the cartoon ends with the words "The Bitter End" on screen. There's a colorized version of this one that fades to the standard Paramount end card when Shorty is singing.
I personally can't wait for these - FINALLY!
The most notorious one was where Popeye and Shorty fall into a furnace, and everything is pitch black after Shorty blows out the candles on Popeye's cake. He then starts singing "Happy Birthday To My Pal", a shot's heard and the flash of a gun going off, and then the cartoon ends with the words "The Bitter End" on screen. There's a colorized version of this one that fades to the standard Paramount end card when Shorty is singing.
I personally can't wait for these - FINALLY!
06-07-06, 07:06 PM
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I am what I am and am I the only one who liked the made-for-tv Popeye animated shorts from the early 60's?
06-08-06, 01:16 PM
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Some Popeye quotes:
"Pekinese are weak in the knees and I don't like these!"
"Anyone that doesn't like spinach is my emeny!"
"I can read writin' when it's writ but not when it's wrote."
"Pekinese are weak in the knees and I don't like these!"
"Anyone that doesn't like spinach is my emeny!"
"I can read writin' when it's writ but not when it's wrote."
06-08-06, 03:47 PM
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Digital Bits with some minor disinformation:
I assume they mean "Warner will start releasing [...] Popeye cartoons on DVD in 2007" - otherwise they make it sound like everything mentioned in the article will be out in 2007, and WB hinted at Looney Tunes-style releases (apparently, annual 4-disc sets).
Warner will be releasing all of the classic King Features Popeye cartoons on DVD in 2007. This will include all of the original theatrical shorts made from 1933 to 1957, along with the more recent made-for-TV shorts seen in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
06-08-06, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by jmj713
Digital Bits with some minor disinformation:
I assume they mean "Warner will start releasing [...] Popeye cartoons on DVD in 2007" - otherwise they make it sound like everything mentioned in the article will be out in 2007, and WB hinted at Looney Tunes-style releases (apparently, annual 4-disc sets).
I assume they mean "Warner will start releasing [...] Popeye cartoons on DVD in 2007" - otherwise they make it sound like everything mentioned in the article will be out in 2007, and WB hinted at Looney Tunes-style releases (apparently, annual 4-disc sets).
Chris
12-02-06, 10:59 AM
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This is terrific news for me, a life-long Popeye fan (I love Fleischer Studios), but I doubt they'll release it in chronological order ---You're a Sap, Mr. Jap is still not safe for soft-America (they still haven't released the WWII Bugs shorts yet).
Whatever box set is released of Popeye, I'm there on Day 1.
Whatever box set is released of Popeye, I'm there on Day 1.
12-02-06, 03:11 PM
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Some of those early shorts if i recall. My memory may be hazy since I was only 5 or 6 when i seen them. But those old black and white early shorts, didn't they have an early 3D feel like to them? I recall that some of the backgrounds had alot of movement behind buildings such as skys or other ongoings.
12-02-06, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Rainet
Some of those early shorts if i recall. My memory may be hazy since I was only 5 or 6 when i seen them. But those old black and white early shorts, didn't they have an early 3D feel like to them? I recall that some of the backgrounds had alot of movement behind buildings such as skys or other ongoings.
Many of the scenes in this short feature use of the Fleischer's Tabletop process, which used modeled sets to create 3D backgrounds for the cartoon.
Fleischer Studio's answer to the multi-plane camera, the Tabletop or Setback camera, was used in two of the shorts. Their apparatus used three-dimensional miniature sets built to the scale of the animation artwork. The animation cels were placed so that various objects could pass in front of and behind them, and the entire scene was shot using a horizontal camera.
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12-02-06, 05:43 PM
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Will the box sets contain just the Paramount animated shorts?
12-02-06, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Class316
wow! Hell froze over!
Now let's see if they will censor or release the intact like Disney seems to be doing.
Now let's see if they will censor or release the intact like Disney seems to be doing.
