Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940, Volume 2

Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940, Volume 2 is the second of a series of DVD sets released by Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...

collecting, in chronological order, the theatrical Popeye

Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...

cartoons originally distributed by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

. Originally planned as a four-disc set like Volume 1
Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1
Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1 is the first authorized collection of theatrical Popeye cartoons on home video. This four-disc DVD set includes 60 theatrical Popeye cartoons, and was released on July 31, 2007 by Warner Home Video...

, Volume 2 was announced and produced to two discs during planning and released on June 17, 2008.

Release

The collection features 30 regular one-reel black-and white Popeye cartoons, and also the last of the three two-reel Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

Popeye Color Specials, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Specials series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on April 7, 1939 by Paramount Pictures. It was produced by Max, and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios, Inc., with David...

. The cartoons were produced by Fleischer Studios

Fleischer Studios

Fleischer Studios, Inc., was an American corporation which originated as an Animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City, New York...

and cover the period when the studio moved from New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

to Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

.

Shortly after the release of the set, Warner Home Video reported that two of the cartoons on disc one, Customers Wanted and Hello, How Am I?, have incorrect opening sequences. The other cartoons on the collection have their Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

production logo

Production logo

A production logo, vanity card, vanity plate, vanity logo or vogo is a logo used by movie studios and television production companies to brand what they produce. Vanity logos are usually seen at the beginning of a theatrical movie , or at the end of a television program or TV movie...

s and original opening credits restored; Customers Wanted and Hello, How Am I? feature opening titles prepared by Associated Artists Productions

Associated Artists Productions

Associated Artists Productions was a distributor of theatrical feature films and short subjects for television. It existed from 1953 to 1958. It was later folded into United Artists. The former a.a.p. library was later owned by MGM/UA Entertainment and then Turner Entertainment. Turner continues...

for television syndication

Television syndication

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in the 1950s. These mistakes are to be repaired in future pressings of the disc, and a disc replacement program was initiated for those who already owned the set.

As with Volume 1, the original Paramount production logo

Production logo

s were restored to the cartoons on the set. Cartoons from Customers Wanted on have their opening title cards restored as well, as these cartoons feature a "Paramount presents" byline in place of the Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer was an American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios...

presents or "Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor , born Adolph Cukor, was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.-Early life:...

presents" used on earlier cartoons. These include the special opening titles prepared for Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, as well as four other 1939 cartoons - Wotta Nitemare, Ghosks Is The Bunk, Hello-How Am I?, and It's The Natural Thing to Do. The latter four use an opening title card style unique to those films instead of the then-standard "ship-door" opening Popeye titles, and were originally restored for television broadcasts on Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

's The Popeye Show
The Popeye Show
The Popeye Show is a Cartoon Network TV show that premiered on November 11, 2001. Each episode would include three unedited Popeye theatrical shorts from Fleischer Studios and/or Famous Studios. The show was narrated by Bill Murray , would give the audience short facts about the history of the...

in the early 2000s.

DVD listing

All cartoons are one-reel (six to eight minute) cartoons in black and white unless otherwise noted. Dave Fleischer
Dave Fleischer
David "Dave" Fleischer was an American animator film director and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his two older brothers Max Fleischer and Lou Fleischer...

received director credit on every cartoon in this set.

1938

I Yam Love Sick

Plumbin' Is A Pipe
Popeye the Sailor with the Jeep
Eugene the Jeep
Eugene the Jeep is a character in the Popeye comic strip. A mysterious animal with magical abilities, the Jeep first appeared in the March 16, 1936, appearance of Thimble Theatre strip...

Bulldozing the Bull
Mutiny Ain't Nice

Goonland
A Date to Skate

1939

Cops is Always Right
Customers Wanted (compilation film)
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Specials series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on April 7, 1939 by Paramount Pictures. It was produced by Max, and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios, Inc., with David...

(in Technicolor, two-reel - 21 min)
Leave Well Enough Alone

Wotta Nitemare (this and the three subsequent cartoons on this disc have full-sized title cards instead of the ship door title cards)

Ghosks Is The Bunk

Hello-How Am I?

It's The Natural Thing to Do

Special features
Popeye Popumentaries:

Eugene the Jeep: A Breed of His Own

Poopdeck Pappy
Poopdeck Pappy
Poopdeck Pappy is a fictional character featured in the Popeye comic strip and animated cartoon spinoffs. Created by E.C. Segar in 1936, the character is Popeye's 99-year-old father.-History:...

: The Nasty Old Man and the Sea

O-Re-Mi: Mae Questel and the Voices of Olive Oyl

Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story.

1939

Never Sock a Baby (this cartoon has an updated ship door title card, the Popeye the Sailor title was updated, the "with arrangement by King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

& Segar
E. C. Segar
Elzie Crisler Segar was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye, a character who first appeared in 1929 in his comic strip Thimble Theatre. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was "SEE-gar". He commonly signed his work simply Segar or E...

" was moved from the director and animators credit to the bottom of the Popeye title card. In addition, this was the last Popeye cartoon to bear Segar's name, although this cartoon was produced after his death.)

1940

Shakespearean Spinach
Females is Fickle

Stealin' Ain't Honest
Me Feelins is Hurt

Onion Pacific
Wimmin is a Myskery

Nurse Mates
Fightin' Pals

Doing Impossikible Stunts
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive

Puttin' on the Act
Popeye Meets William Tell
William Tell
William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. His legend is recorded in a late 15th century Swiss chronicle....

My Pop, My Pop
Popeye the Sailor with Poopdeck Pappy

Popeye Presents Eugene the Jeep
Eugene the Jeep
Eugene the Jeep is a character in the Popeye comic strip. A mysterious animal with magical abilities, the Jeep first appeared in the March 16, 1936, appearance of Thimble Theatre strip...

Special features

Popeye Popumentry: Men of Spinach and Steel.

From the Vault:

Paramount presents Popular Science
Popular Science (film)
Popular Science was a series of short films, produced by Jerry Fairbanks and released by Paramount Pictures.The Popular Science film series is a Hollywood entertainment production - the only attempt by the movie industry to chronicle the progress of science, industry and popular culture during the...

--segment of a 1939 Paramount short covering the making of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp at the Fleischer studio in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
The Mechanical Monsters
The Mechanical Monsters
The Mechanical Monsters is the second of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, the story features Superman battling a mad scientist with a small army of robots at his command...

--a 1941 Superman
Superman (1940s cartoons)
The Fleischer & Famous Superman cartoons are a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the comic book character Superman....

short
Early Max Fleischer Art Gallery
Females is Fickle pencil test
Stealin' Ain't Honest storyboard reel
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man vintage audio recording by Billy Costello
Michael Sporn interviews Jack Mercer
Jack Mercer
Jack Mercer was an American animator, storyman and voice actor. He is best known as the voice of cartoon character Popeye the Sailor...

(audio only).

Release

DVD listing

1938

1939

Special features

1939

1940

Special features

See also