Popeye the Sailor - Alpine for You (1951)

Famous Studios Popeye the Sailor cartoon. Popeye and Olive Oyl are climbing the Swiss Alps, where they run into mountain guide Bluto, who once again plots to get rid of Popeye and make a move on Olive. What makes this cartoon great is the ending gag, which was completely ruined when the Popeye films were sold to Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) for television. This version is the complete version that includes the ending gag and the original titles.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Famous Studios
• Popeye
• sailor
• cartoon
• Olive Oyl
• Bluto
• Swiss Alps
• mountain climbing
• classic ending gag
• Paramount logo
• surprise ending
• Paramount

[ceredigio]

So how did the AAP version end?

[s275ironman]

The AAP version would end right as Bluto hits the mountain, cutting straight to the AAP end title. Some people believe that an AAP version of this cartoon is just an urban legend (I, myself, have never seen an AAP version). Either way, an AAP version of this cartoon has become quite rare since Turner's networks have shown this version with original titles since the late 1980's, and before Turner's acquisition, copies with original titles have been circulating among TV stations across the USA.

[ceredigio]

@s275ironman The AAP version killed the end gag stone dead because of the Paramount logo's involvement. Paramount didn't want to be associated with TV at the time, which is why they sold their Popeye catalog to AAP.

[s275ironman]

@ceredigio Confirmed. According to what I read in Fred Grandinetti's book "Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History", it appears that all Popeye cartoons released all the way up through "Car-azy Drivers" had AAP logos plastered over the originals. But, it appears to be that when TV stations received the AAP package, quite a few copies of "Peep in the Deep", "Popeye Meets Hercules", "A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing" and "Alpine for You" had been distributed with their original Paramount logos.

[ceredigio]

@1happycats No doubt AAP clipped that gag

[ceredigio]

@mrnatedog1111 Obviously AAP didn't LOL

[ceredigio]

@John80220 When I was a kid and living in the US in the 90's the vast bulk of Popeye shorts on the telly were the AAP edits, tho a few of the Paramount original shorts were shown as well.

[spacebullseye]

Olive needs to gain weight in her nose. 

[rextony22]

keep away from me you you mountain goat lol. her yous are funny.

[John80220]

All the color Popeyes through "Car-azy Drivers" had the AAP opening when they were sent out to stations on film starting in 1956; it was when they changed over to sending the cartoons out on videotape in the early 1980s and struck new prints that the ones with the original titles (mainly the 1946-49 Cinecolor/Polacolor efforts) began running on TV

[Landaux]

@s275ironman When i started paying attention and started recording all the theatrical Popeyes on VHS the only ones I had were "Peep in the Deep", "A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing" & "Alpine for you" had as you see today the original openings as mentioned, and this was in the summer of 1983. :-) And I remember A.A.P. as far back as the early 70s from our local UHF station KHTV 39 Houston.

[mrnatedog1111]

@s275ironman Did you like it whenever Bluto hits the mountain and forms Paramount?

[vanessita1215]

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