Popeye the Sailor - Volume 1: 1933-1938---July 31!!!!!
08-04-07, 01:49 PM
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Went ahead and took the plunge, some BBs are having tax free weekends btw.
Was never a huge fan of Popeye growing up, but I'm a bit of a cartoon completist, and the features on this look promising.
Was never a huge fan of Popeye growing up, but I'm a bit of a cartoon completist, and the features on this look promising.
08-04-07, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by jmj713
08-05-07, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jmj713
My nine-year-old nephew loves these 1930s B&W shorts. We went through Disc One in two sittings. He said he saw "colored" Popeye on TV on Boomerang and likes B&W more 
08-06-07, 10:58 AM
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I opened mine up last night and started watching it. I watched the extras on the first disc and really liked the documentary on the history of popeye, I thought it was really well done. After watching most of the rest of the extras, I started watching the actual cartoons and was amazed by how sharp these looked. They did a wonderful job restoring them and I can't believe how great they looked on my 52" LCD with them being 70 years old! I'm not even finished with disc 1 yet and I already feel this was more than worth the money.
08-06-07, 11:04 AM
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let it be said, here and now - buy online! Had I known better...I am a member of Barnes & Noble, so I figured it would be as much in the store as it is online. Well, not so...online, with my membership, it woulda cost me $40.00, plus 3.50 for shipping, so say $43.00. In the store, it was $64.00, and with my member's discount, paid about $56.00.
I love the set (despite the fact that when I got home, the binding had a crinkle in it) - I may have been disappointed in the Woody toons, but that certainly isn't the case with Popeye. Love the mumbling; love the fighting.
I love the set (despite the fact that when I got home, the binding had a crinkle in it) - I may have been disappointed in the Woody toons, but that certainly isn't the case with Popeye. Love the mumbling; love the fighting.
08-06-07, 11:05 AM
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would someone be willing to do a cover scan of the Best Buy tin and post or send it to me? i can't and wanted this scan. thanks in advance if possible.
08-06-07, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by scott1598
would someone be willing to do a cover scan of the Best Buy tin and post or send it to me? i can't and wanted this scan. thanks in advance if possible.
08-06-07, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor
It is on the forum here somewhere Scott. If not in this thread, maybe the BB weekly thread, or one of the exclusive threads. I know I saw it here.
you probably mean this one...
but, i was looking for an actual scan of just the cover so i can use it for DVD Spot.
08-06-07, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Buttmunker
let it be said, here and now - buy online! Had I known better...I am a member of Barnes & Noble, so I figured it would be as much in the store as it is online. Well, not so...online, with my membership, it woulda cost me $40.00, plus 3.50 for shipping, so say $43.00. In the store, it was $64.00, and with my member's discount, paid about $56.00.
08-06-07, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by scott1598
but, i was looking for an actual scan of just the cover so i can use it for DVD Spot.
08-06-07, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Wannabe
Is Best Buy still selling the tin?
The tin is not on their web site anymore, but I saw multiple copies and two different BBs yesterday.
08-06-07, 08:55 PM
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I was a little dismayed to notice that they mistakenly called the shorts "episodes" on the DVD.
Warner got it right with "Looney Tunes," but got it wrong with both "Tom and Jerry" and now "Popeye." Grrr...
Warner got it right with "Looney Tunes," but got it wrong with both "Tom and Jerry" and now "Popeye." Grrr...
09-12-07, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Deco King
When will Betty Boop follow Popeye onto a decent remastered DVD boxset?
I found this on cartoonresearch.com
This is who owns the rights to them
"FLEISCHER CARTOONS (includes Betty Boop, Screen Songs, KoKo The Clown (1927-1929), Animated Antics, Stone-Age and Color Classics) are owned by Republic Entertainment (a subsidiary of Viacom). Artisan Entertainment have sub-licensed the video rights."
I asked Jerry Beck a few months ago what the chances we would get a Betty DVD and he said that unfortunately the studios just DON'T CARE. I personally believe that the companies are watching the sales of Popeye as an indicator to see what profit can be made off of these classic cartoons. I think a lot of the Betty cartoons are also part of the public domain. Don't know how that would fit into the equation. So yeah, hopefully Popeye will pave the way for more great classics. I think we got really lucky with WB snatching up the Popeyes.
09-12-07, 03:32 PM
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The Betty Boop shorts are such great animated movies with their surrealist moments as in Snow White with the Cab Calloway songs as the Wicked Queen chases Snow White through the underground caverns , and wonderfully drug induced (?) imagery!!
They are far too great a set of classic animations to end up on supermarket shelves in the $2.00 DVD section!! They really deserve remastering from the finest elements and commentaries etc too bad Mae Questel Betty's voice is now dead!
They are far too great a set of classic animations to end up on supermarket shelves in the $2.00 DVD section!! They really deserve remastering from the finest elements and commentaries etc too bad Mae Questel Betty's voice is now dead!
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