"Popeye the sailor meets Sindbad the sailor" (1936) RESTORED!!

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Feature series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 27, 1936 by Paramount Pictures. It was produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios, Inc. and directed by Dave Fleischer, with musical supervision by Sammy Timberg. The voice of Popeye is performed by Jack Mercer, with Mae Questel as Olive Oyl and Gus Wickie as Sindbad the Sailor.

In this short, Sindbad the Sailor (presumably Bluto playing a "role") proclaims himself the greatest sailor in the world and "the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow," a claim which is challenged by Popeye's arrival on his island with Olive Oyl and J. Wellington Wimpy in tow. Sindbad orders his huge Roc, Rokh, to kidnap Popeye's girlfriend, Olive Oyl, and challenges the one-eyed sailor to a series of obstacles to prove his greatness, including fighting Rokh, a two-headed giant named Boola, and Sindbad himself. Popeye makes short work of the bird and the giant, but Sindbad almost gets the best of him until Popeye produces his can of spinach, which gives him the power to soundly defeat Sindbad and proclaim himself "the most remarkable, extraordinary fella."

A subtly dark running gag features Wimpy chasing after a duck on the island with a meat grinder, intending to grind the duck's flesh so that he can fry it into a hamburger, but the duck not only escapes, but also snatches away Wimpy's last hamburger in retaliation when he gives up. Many of the scenes in this short feature make use of the Fleischer's Tabletop process, which used modeled sets to create 3D backgrounds for the cartoon.

This short was the first of the three Popeye Color Specials, which were, at over sixteen minutes each, three times as long as a regular Popeye cartoon, and were often billed in theatres alongside or above the main feature. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor was nominated for the 1936 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, which it lost to Walt Disney's Silly Symphony The Country Cousin. Footage from this short was later used in the 1952 Famous Studios Popeye cartoon Big Bad Sindbad, in which Popeye relates the story of his encounter with Sindbad to his nephews.

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[theakamark]

@thegoldenageoftoons 3-d effect, foreground panning left to right as background is stationary.

[kaitoreader93]

OMG, the restored episode is amazing!

[Windclaw]

I love the use of practical effects to create that '3D' environment! That's something you just don't see anymore.

[cartoonwoody]

I see it's non-Mickey-Mouse-Short Animation!

[cartoonwoody]

give this credit plz

[isacloboz]

Popeye is so boss.

[thegoldenageoftoons]

What are the "special processes" that Paramount had a patent-pending for in this toon?

[meowkie]

Fantastic restoration! My copy is so blury and bright that you can hardly make out the expressions, and I thought THAT was still impressive. Gotta love youtube, thanks for sharing this! ;D

[GreatGarloo]

wow. to have seen this in the 1930's must have been mindblowing! it still is incredible.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

you should see this back in the late 1970's and early 1980's on tv