Popeye the Sailor (1933 - 1938) - Streets Tomorrow

We don't have articles or reviews on the site -- yet, but I just can't let **Warner Home Video's** release of Popeye the Sailor (1933 - 1938), which comes out tomorrow, go by without comment. After previewing it this weekend, it is sure to please even the most ardent skeptic who balked at the $64.92 retail price. With crisp and clean prints, over 20 insightful commentaries, 10 documentaries/featurettes and 16 early animation bonus shorts, it is sure to be one of the must-haves for classic film fans this year. It can be purchased here at Classicflix.com for only $44.99.

Complete disc contents below.




Disc 1:
  1. Popeye the Sailor - Commentary by Michael Barrier with Animator Dave Tendlar
  2. I Yam What I Yam - Commentary by Animator Mark Kausler
  3. Blow Me Down - Commentary by Animators Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua
  4. I Eats My Spinach - Commentary by Michael Barrier with Dave Tendlar
  5. Seasin’s Greetinks
  6. Wild Elephinks - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  7. Sock-A-Bye Baby - Commentary by Historian Glenn Mitchell
  8. Let’s You and Him Fight
  9. The Man on the Flying Trapeze
  10. Can You Take It - Commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford
  11. Shoein’ Hosses
  12. Strong to the Finich
  13. Shiver Me Timbers!
  14. Axe Me Another
  15. A Dream Walking - Commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
BONUS FEATURES:
  • Retrospective Documentary: I Yam What I Yam: The Story of Popeye the Sailor
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Mining the Strip, Elzie Segar and Thimble Theatre
    • Me Fickle Goyl, Olive Oyl: The World’s Least Likely Sex Symbol
  • From the Vault - 3 Bray Productions/IFC Studio Shorts
    • Colonel Heeza Liar at the Bat (1915)
    • Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916)
    • Domestic Difficulties (1916)
Disc 2:
  1. The Two Alarm Fire
  2. The Dance Contest
  3. We Aim to Please
  4. Beware of Barnacle Bill - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  5. Be Kind to Animals
  6. Pleased to Meet Cha!
  7. The "Hyp-Nut-Tist"
  8. Choose yer Weppins’ - Commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford
  9. For Better or Worser - Commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford
  10. Dizzy Divers
  11. You Gotta Be a Football Hero - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  12. King of the Mardi Gras - Commentary by Historian Michael Barrier and Actor Jack Mercer
  13. Adventures of Popeye - Commentary by Historian Glenn Mitchell
  14. The Spinach Overture - Commentary by Historian Daniel Goldmark
  15. Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
BONUS FEATURES:
  • Retrospective Documentary: Forging the Frame - The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Sailor’s Hornpipes: The Voices of Popeye
    • Wimpy the Moocher: Ode to the Burgermeister
  • From the Vault - 3 Bray Productions/Sullivan Studio Shorts
    • Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum
    • Feline Follies
    • The Tantalizing Fly
Disc 3:
  1. A Clean Shaven Man - Commentary by Writer Paul Dini
  2. Brotherly Love
  3. I Ski-Love Ski-You Ski - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  4. Bridge Ahoy!
  5. What-No Spinach?
  6. I Wanna Be a Lifeguard
  7. Let’s Get Movin’
  8. Never Kick A Woman
  9. Little Swee’pea
  10. Hold the Wire
  11. The Spinach Roadster
  12. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  13. I’m in the Army Now
  14. The Paneless Window Washer - Commentary by Animator Mark Kausler
  15. Organ Grinder’s Swing
BONUS FEATURES:
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Blow Me Down! The Music of Popeye
    • Popeye in Living Color: A Look at the Color Two-Reelers
  • From the Vault - 6 Out of the Inkwell Shorts
    • Modeling (1921)
    • Invisible Ink (1921)
    • Bubbles (1922)
    • Jumping Beans (1922)
    • Bed Time (1923)
    • Trapped (1923)
Disc 4:
  1. My Artistical Temperature
  2. Hospitaliky
  3. The Twisker Pitcher
  4. Morning, Noon and Night Club
  5. Lost and Foundry - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  6. I Never Changes My Altitude
  7. I Likes Babies and Infinks
  8. The Football Toucher Downer
  9. Proteck the Weakerist - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  10. Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  11. Fowl Play
  12. Let’s Celebrake
  13. Learn Polikeness
  14. The House Builder Upper
  15. Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

BONUS FEATURES:
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Me Lil’ Swee’pea: Whose Kid is He Anyway?
    • Et Tu Bluto? Cartoondom’s Heaviest Heavy
  • From the Vault - 4 Out of the inkwell/Fleischer studio shorts
    • A Trip to Mars
    • Koko Trains ‘Em
    • Koko Back Tracks
    • Let’s Sing With Popeye

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