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Spinach Skrewtny: 1940 (Patreon)

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2021-01-25 22:00:05
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2021-01

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Popeye enters his second decade with his Golden Age firmly behind him, yet production at the Miami Fleischer studio kicks up: fifteen cartoons were released this year! At this point the established directors and storymen lose their way, while lots of new crews work try their hand at Popeye (and fail). This star-studded year sees the return of Poopdeck Pappy and Eugene the Jeep, and the debut of Popeye's quadruplet nephews (as his sons). But it's new-to-series legends like Shamus Culhane and Bill Nolan who find interesting things to do with the sailor and his kin and turn out the best entries this season.

Cartoons discussed: 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, My Pop, My Pop, With Poopdeck Pappy, and Popeye Presents Eugene the Jeep.

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Anonymous

The boards for STEALIN' AIN'T HONEST were shared on Cartoon Research, but I didn't do an animator breakdown video of it. (The video link is dead, so I might remedy this at some point...) https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/popeye-in-stealin-aint-honest/

Anonymous

The opening scene of Popeye proposing to Olive in WIMMIN IS A MYSKERY is animated by Joe D'Igalo. His handling of lip-sync is usually a tell for me. If you look closely at Olive's mouth movements during the scene, it's similar to his animation for Frank Tashlin and the Ben Hardaway/Cal Dalton unit at Warners that preceded this.

Anonymous

I'm unaware of what the situation at the Fleischer studio was in the 1940s but judging from these shorts, I get the feeling that the staff must have been exhausted trying to keep up with the production of shorts while working on two feature films. Did Gulliver's Travels do well in the box office or did it only cause more problems between Paramount and the Fleischers?

cartoonlogic
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Gulliver was enough of a success that they wanted a second feature... We'll get into that in the next podcast...

Anonymous

This was a very entertaining episode! Bob's run of "I'll mind yer mine for ya" caught me by surprise, but I got a kick out of it! As I've listened to these podcasts, I've come to realize how funny the Popeye cartoons are in audio form. Even without proper context, it's still easy to laugh and understand how well crafted the films are. When I listened to clips of the 1940 cartoons here, I didn't get that same feeling. A lot of it didn't click. Partially because of the revolting voice work, and partially because the character interactions felt underwhelming and mediocre. While 1940 has its bright spots (at least from my understanding), the spirit of previous years is diminishing.

Anonymous

Couldn’t Popeye and Olive just get married and NOT have kids? Two separate cartoons imply neither are crazy about parenting, so it’s silly that’s apparently not an option.

John Veitch

That was interesting to hear about Tom Palmer's unit on Gulliver's Travels. Do you know who was in the other units on that feature? A few folks who never got a head animator credit on shorts are listed as "directors of animation": Robert Leffingwell, Winfield Hoskins and Frank Kelling. Was it their Disney (and sometimes even Snow White) experience that got them fast-tracked? Also interesting to hear that Stan Quackenbush was in that unit. Arnold Gillespie was only given three head animator/director credits at Fleischers, and on all of them the other credited animator was Abner Kneitel. However, a slightly earlier release, the Color Classic "Snubbed by a Snob" credits him alongside head animator/director Stan Quackenbush - which was his only shorts credit.