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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