Let's Sing with Popeye

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Let's Sing With Popeye

Screen Songs series
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer (producer)
Voices by William Costello (uncredited)
Animation by Seymour Kneitel (unc.)
Roland Crandall (unc.)
Studio Fleischer Studios
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) 1934
Color process Black-and-white
Running time 2 mins
IMDb profile

Let's Sing With Popeye is a 1934 Screen Songs animated short, produced by Fleischer Studios and directed by Dave Fleischer.

The song featured in this Screen Song was the Popeye theme song "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man", written by Sammy Lerner. The animation for this film is taken from the first Popeye cartoon, Popeye the Sailor, which was originally presented as part of the Betty Boop series.

The entire cartoon is less than 2 minutes long, with over half of that given to the credits and the bouncing ball. This shorter than normal cartoon was produced as a regular weekly feature for Paramount's Saturday morning matinee "Popeye Club".

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Popeye is singing his theme song as he strolls along the deck of a sailing ship. He punctuates the lines of the song with three demonstations of his strength. With a single punch, he reduces the ship's anchor to a pile of fish hooks. The large ship's clock meets a similar fate, ending as an assortment of watches and alarm clocks. Finally, a small mast is reduced to clothes pins.

The animated portion of the cartoon ends after about 45 seconds, and the rest of the cartoon presents the words of the song and the "famous bouncing ball" so that the audience can "Sing With Popeye".

[edit] Notes

In 1935, Paramount added to Popeyes's popularity by sponsoring the "Popeye Club" as part of their Saturday morning matinee program. "Let's Sing With Popeye" was a regular part of the weekly meetings, along with other cartoons, movies, prize giveaways and other activities. Paramount provided a manual to theatre owners, telling them how to organize a Popeye Club, but the specific details were left to the local theatre owners and varied from one theatre to another.

[edit] Availability

This cartoon is available on DVD as a special feature on disc four of the DVD collection Popeye the Sailor 1933-1938.

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