Popeye the Sailor 001 (Betty Boop) - Popeye the Sailor

[KirneH004]

Some talented person should attempt a metal cover of Popeye's theme :)

[kaitoreader93]

Wow! His First Cartoon....

[KingRandor82]

I absolutely love Popeye; it's something my old man got me into, and I've loved Popeye since childhood. Nonetheless.....this short isn't without its flaws, and there are many...mainly in terms of "continuity", and by that I mean in this short alone. Nonetheless....there's only so much you can expect from an "introduction" short....not to mention the fact that it's exactly that: a short. So for what it is, it's ok; kinda cool to see how it all began, but I'm glad they improved on him over time.

[giuseppebarletta89]

la prima apparizione di Popeye, in un cartone di Betty Boop?!? Stranissimo!

[jacobwagner096]

his pipe must taste like spinach. thumbs if u get it!

[Zortov]

7:18 And 40 people died in that train accident. Thanks a lot popeye.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

This was one of the first Popeye cartoons ever seen and it was the only cartoon in a Betty Boop short. When a TV distributor AAP (before it was bought by United Artists TV in 1958) acquired the 1933-55 "Popeye" cartoon library, they only had one cartoon with Betty Boop, but NTA/UM&M didn't bought only one cartoon, just the Betty Boop cartoon library that NTA/UM&M distributed for syndication, but it didn't used the UM&M copyright on the title of the first Popeye cartoon.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

@HomeoftheGoodGuys BTW, the UM&M version in every Betty Boop cartoon plastered the Paramount ink bottle ending which was kinda strange, but it never showed up on numerous Public Domain DVD's.

[Recedebo]

I love the inking in this old animations, they really added something to the drawings

[lyonlamb]

Popeye just killed dozens of passengers and the crew of that train at 7:18. And Bluto. He assassinated Bluto.

[Waldemarlenechaves]

Racism at 3:56. :P

But this cartoon is amazing, just like all animations by Fleischer bros.

[darksonicboomboom]

I never knew that Betty boop would appear with popeye on the same screen..

[jimmye6669]

Betty Boop looking kinda sexy here. lololololol.. Thats what my buddy just said as we watched the cartoon... he's a sickoo lolol

[nickellicker]

KrazyKartoonKid...Mickey Mouse debuted earlier (November 18, 1928), and appeared in 131 theatrical cartoons from 1928-1995, but became just a host for decades afterwards. Popeye appeared in 232 from 1933-1957, then another 507 on television. Although Mickey Mouse is by far the most well-loved cartoon character in history, I consider Popeye's total of 638 animated cartoons in 55 years the longest-running. If there's a more prolific series out there, I'd love to hear which one it is...

[sowisapigtobeexact2]

Olive sounds Austraillian in this.

[cupcakexrider]

i hate olive she so ugly. >:(

[nickellicker]

You could actually call "Popeye the Sailor" (1933) one of the first animated spin-offs in cartoon history, thanks to an already popular cartoon character, Betty Boop. In this short, she takes a backseat to Popeye for his debut, but while Betty's short subjects fazed out in 1939, Popeye, to this day, has appeared in the most animated films in cartoon history. Young viewers may not appreciate B&W films, but when it's filmed at 24 frames per second, you have to be impressed...Thanks for the post...

[KrazyKartoonKid]

@nickellicker I'm 15 going on 16 and I love Popeye. However it is not the longest running animated series in history. It is the most popular

[gokumon17]

Popeye the sailor man.....The toon that shall not be forgotten...Thank you E.C Segar, for creating this one eyed,spinach eating,bully beating,(Bluto cheating),Olive hitting sailor....

[doobiesmoke15]

Whats with all the Animal people? How come none of the other Popeye cartoons featured any of them?

[FawfulAwful]

Popeye: William Costello

Bluto: William Pennell

Olive Oyl: Bonnie Poe

[AndrewBandTelevision]

wow! the first perfomance of Popeye was released in 1923! lol my god,in two years Popeye become a 90 Years Old Great man! I iiii love it! ^_^

[WSenator1]

@AndrewBandTelevision - NO, no - This cartoon appeared in 1933. That would make the cartoons almost 80 years old. But like you, I loved watching Popeye on TV in the 50s - and still love him!

[AndrewBandTelevision]

@WSenator1 oh sorry :P ... ^_^

[tussler21557]

@JrFLYnnIV i think its a prohibition reference of a "non-alcoholic" beer that was sold at the time. it had alcohol in it and was recalled.

[mansoldworld]

Man thanx for upload this ... Amazing

[getsomelead]

@JrFLYnnIV something to do with proabition

[silverlum45]

2:33 for the win.

Also, who else had Popeye's theme song stuck in their heads? >w<

[KrasseOdaVonBayern]

@silverlum45 I am gonna do that from now on, just run in and take a girl and yell my name

[silverlum45]

@KrasseOdaVonBayern I'd want to see that.

[KrasseOdaVonBayern]

@silverlum45 /eats-spinachsk-and-grabs-girl "I'm Johann the German man, agyakyakyakyakyakyak!"

[silverlum45]

@KrasseOdaVonBayern lol I meant in real life, but that'll do nicely.

[KrasseOdaVonBayern]

@silverlum45 That is gonna be my newest pick up line. I swear it.

[silverlum45]

@KrasseOdaVonBayern Awesome. Maybe I should try doing that.

[getsomelead]

thumbs up if you were raised on popey and company and not todays crap!

[50chickens50]

@getsomelead My grandmother may have been real damn stupid with some of the crap she let me watch, but Popeye and co I'm damn glad to have had.

[GoliathGrowler]

@getsomelead I was actually raised by cartoons from different eras, and Popeye and Betty Boop were among the older ones I watched, and I wish I could say this in a nicer way, but I am getting tired of everyone saying the new stuff is bad. Sure, a lot of the stuff we have today is like watching TV in Hell, but there are a few decent ones. The old stuff is not without its charm, but we need to deal with life not being so great. We can think of today's kids hating tomorrow's toons!

[getsomelead]

@GoliathGrowler Well I am a little biased some of the first cartoons I remember watching as a kid were Batman the Animated Series and such other cartoons of that era so the bar was set a little higher for me. There are a few more recent american cartoons today that still can appeal to adults but they are getting more and more rare.

[GoliathGrowler]

@getsomelead I can't agree more. Lots of the best stuff tends to be short-lived. And I remember BTAS. I threw a rock at him!

[getsomelead]

@GoliathGrowler Was it a big rock?

[GoliathGrowler]

@getsomelead Yes, but he destroyed it with his bat-grenade. Then this Superman bloke sent me back to the fifth dimension by making me say my name backwards! Other childhood faves of mine included The Mask, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Inspector Gadget, plus many others(some of which were only good in my opinion. I like Creepy Crawlers, but it's been labeled one of the worst cartoons ever. Of course, everybody has to like and hate something).

[willjleighton]

Somehow, I recorded a COLORIZED version of this from Boomerang. Thank you, DirecTV!!!

[willjleighton]

But for some odd reason, it didn't have the opening titles...

[mrfuzzyhead948]

@SparkyMK3 oh

[Gorillazgurl98]

at 3:55 look at the prizes & you will see betty boop & bimbo as toys!!!

[Gorillazgurl98]

That poor sun

[Gorillazgurl98]

That poor bird...

[Faustaao]

LOL love when Bluto just grabs Olive "MARRY ME!" and walks off with her over his shoulder.. classic.

[star9309]

lol, I didn't know Popeye wore a corset!! xD

[Darklancy]

That theme song with Betty Boop was fantastic :D

[31operafan]

This shouldn't have been called a Betty Boop cartoon, since Betty only appears for about a minute (during the hula dancing sequence). Popeye gets most, if not all, of the spotlight in this cartoon.

[LedWilde]

@31operafan They called it a Betty Boop cartoon (in smaller letters than the Popeye title) and had her in it some ONLY to attract attention to the new Popeye series. Betty Boop was very popular so it was a form of advertisement.

[JPSK]

I like how popeye chose to murder all the people on the train

[silentglow16]

Popeye wears a corset too xDDD And Betty Boop wears almost nothing O.O

[31operafan]

@silentglow16 Betty Boop is well-known for not wearing too much. That obviously made her more attractive to male characters in the cartoons.

[silentglow16]

Popeye has one good waist. He's really able to do the hoola. But he's seriously violent here though xD

[CajunGypsy]

I don't even want to think about how the owner of the carnival got his money out of that poor bird at the end of each day...

[MrChupy67]

lolz bearded lady at 4:30

[mrfuzzyhead948]

how come betty boop is black (african americzan)?

[SparkyMK3]

@mrfuzzyhead948 No, she just has a tan, to fit in with the Hula motif. Must have gotten it from Bamboo Isle.(which her animation for this short was recycled from).

[johnnieRad]

There's A Re-Dubbed Version Of This Cartoon!

C. Martin Croker-Popeye, Bluto, Sailor Dog 1, Sailor Dog 2

Nancy Cartwright-Olive Oyl, Betty Boop, Lady With Beard

Frank Welker-Peg Leg Pig, Sun, Monkey, Snake

[MayDayWatson5]

I like Olive's original voice a lot better then the cutesy voice they gave her later. I know that was the style at the time for girls to talk like that, But the deeper voice fits her better.

[Nimbi64]

Yeah, she's DEFINITELY going to marry you once you've tied a huge girder around her.

[fromthesidelines]

As for the newspaper article, 'JrFLYnnIV', that IS legitimate (a "mock-up" was made from an actual New York newspaper at :40). At the time this was filmed, "real beer" was forbidden to be sold or consumed nationally because of "Prohibition", enacted in 1920. Apparently, New York lawmakers didn't want "near beer" (or "ghost beer"), a brew slightly less than the "3.2" standard of "real beer", sold as the "real thing". When "Prohibition" ended that December, it became a moot point...

[fromthesidelines]

Originally released on July 14, 1933, as part of the "Betty Boop" series (although she makes a token appearance, mostly in reused footage from 1932's "Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle"). Fleischer and Paramount wanted to "sneak" Popeye into theaters before his own series premiered that September, to see if audiences would accept him as a "movie star". Needless to say, they did!

[Globe2219]

A classic!

[deyanmegara]

Ah! Finally the missing "inkwell" closing... Good thing they didn't try to redraw it in 1987, they would've done it awfully.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

@deyanmegara I remember seeing an ending in a "Popeye" cartoon, but it got slapped by the AAP logo blocking the ink bottle Paramount ending. And to my knowledge, I've never saw the Paramount ink bottle ending before. It was the first to use stop motion animation while the logo and "The End" title dissolves. It didn't use by hand, but it lifts the ink bottle and closing the lid after it flipped. What an interesting concept. They also used it in both Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons throughout 1933.

[cha5]

True, she lots of the time would try to slug Bluto in some of the earliest Fleischer toons, also it's interesting that Bluto was a character that Segar used just once in the daily Popeye comic strip in

a knock down fist to fist all or nothing fight that lasted from September 13 to Sept 30 1932,

which has been reprinted in the Fantgraphics reprint collection of

E.C. Segar Popeye strips,

he was never seen again in the early Segar strips but the Fleischer's used him constantly from 1933 on