Popeye The Sailor: Volume One, 1933-1938
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- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellBonnie PoePopeye begins his movie career by singing his theme song, demonstrating his strength at a carnival, dancing the hula with Betty Boop, pummeling Bluto, eating his spinach, and saving Olive Oyl from certain doom on the railroad tracks.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloCharles LawrenceWilliam PennellPopeye, Olive Oyl, and Wimpy land in America thanks to her rowing. Popeye quickly turns some trees into a log cabin. He hunts for ducks and encounters some pesky Indians while another band of natives surround his two friends in the cabin.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellBonnie PoePopeye sails into Mexico, where Olive is a dancer and Bluto is a bandit.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelPopeye and Olive Oyl go to the rodeo where Bluto performs and impresses Olive. Popeye outdoes him with some fancy riding and steer wrestling. Meanwhile, Bluto makes off with Olive, so Popeye eats his spinach to save her and to stop a bull.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellBonnie PoePopeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh; of course, Popeye fights him. When she rejects Bluto again, he sends her careening on an ice floe towards a waterfall.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloCharles LawrenceWilliam PennellFloating on a raft, Popeye and Olive Oyl land on a jungle island and immediately battle wild elephants, gorillas, and other animals.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelPopeye pushes a baby pram down city sidewalks and lots of noise keeps the kid awake and crying. In typically brutal manner, Popeye deals with the noise makers including a busking Harpo Marx, music school, construction site, and car horns.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloCharles LawrenceWilliam PennellBluto is the boxing champ; Popeye is his challenger; Wimpy the timekeeper. Popeye is pounded mercilessly until Olive comes by with a can of spinach.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsCharles CarverWilliam CostelloLou FleischerPopeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsBonnie PoeWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellPopeye wants to join a club of fighters. But can he take their grueling initiation test... and can the club take his rough-housing?
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsCharles CarverWilliam CostelloCharles LawrenceWimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of course, their competition wrecks the shop.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloBonnie PoeMae QuestelOlive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the values of spinach: he feeds some to a tree, which grows huge and sprouts a variety of fruit; he feeds a hen, which lays a dozen eggs, and he eats some himself to resist a prizefighter passing by. The children, inspired, feed some to a couple of sorry looking cows, which grow into vicious bulls, sending them up a tree. Popeye saves them, and they finally dig in.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloLou FleischerCharles LawrencePopeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsCharles CarverWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellPierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloLou FleischerWilliam PennellPopeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero.
- DirectorJohn Randolph BrayColonel Heeza Liar is the star of the first animated series featuring a recurring character. In this story he comes to the rescue of a baseball team and becomes the star pitcher and hitter.
- Krazy Kat, carrying his banjo, leaves home and flies his plane "Kazook" to the house of Ignatz Mouse, whom he loves. Outside Ignatz's window, Krazy starts his serenade. Meanwhile, Ignatz sneaks off to Kelly's Brick Yard and returns with a load of bricks, which he throws at the unsuspecting Krazy from behind. It's no news to Krazy when he's told he has the wrong house.
- DirectorBud FisherWhen Mrs. Mutt goes out for the evening, Mutt and Jeff arrange a visit to the local bar.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelWhen rival firefighters Popeye and Bluto respond to Olive Oyl's house fire, they find themselves fighting each other more than the fire.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelPopeye and Olive visit a dance hall, where a contest is in progress (though judge Wimpy seems far more interested in his hamburgers than the dancers). He dances terribly. Bluto cuts in, and Popeye sulks in a corner next to a convenient bowl of spinach. Popeye dances impressively; Bluto comes back and manhandles Olive.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelOlive and Popeye open up a diner, but have to deal with Wimpy and Bluto being deadbeat customers.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelTo the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course).
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam PennellFloyd BuckleyMae QuestelPopeye and Olive can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water. They intervene and, while Bluto fights them off for a while, ultimately prevail.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelThe boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting. She catches them, and tells them one will have to leave. Bluto tells Popey that whoever does the best trick can stay. As a result, they find ever more creative ways to abuse each other, much to Olive's merriment. Eventually, though, they start destroying her house, and Olive throws them both out, for a little while, anyhow.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsGus WickeWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellPopeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelGus WickePoliceman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawn shop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelGus WickePopeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" and picks Olive at the same time Bluto picks her. Of course, the boys settle their problem with their fists. Soon, Bluto and Olive are visiting Justice of the Peace Wimpy, with Popeye temporarily detained.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloBonnie PoeGus WickePopeye and Bluto are deep sea divers. Popeye has a treasure map; for some reason he cuts Bluto in on the deal, but of course, Bluto's idea of 50-50 isn't exactly fair.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelGus WickeWhen football star Bluto sweeps Olive Oyl off her feet during a game, Popeye retaliates by joining the opposing team.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeA Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath. He manages to spoil a balance trick, then tops it with Wimpy in a chair. Olive then volunteers to be levitated; Bluto pulls her over and saws her in half. Olive escapes to a roller coaster with the boys in pursuit.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskySeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeIn live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips from four of his earlier pictures.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and nautical tunes). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show up Popeye. Popeye plays horribly until he unlocks the previously unexplored artistic benefits of spinach.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret; seeing Popeye's greater success with women, he dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength.
- Documentary traces the evolution of animation from 1900-1920.
- DirectorEarl HurdA little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- DirectorOtto MessmerMaster Tom is lured away from his job of protecting the house from mice by the charms of "Miss Kitty". While he's gone, the mice trash the house. Complications ensue.
- DirectorMax FleischerStarsRoland CrandallMax FleischerAs a cartoonist draws a clown, a housefly harasses both the man and his pen-and-ink creation.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeThat's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeInspired by Olive's preaching of the value of brotherly love, Popeye takes a walk through the city doing good deeds.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way, which Popeye manages to overcome. They get to the top, and Bluto pushes Popeye off a cliff and starts skiing down with Olive. Popeye eats his spinach and gives chase.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsLou FleischerJack MercerMae QuestelFed up with Bluto's greed with his expensive river ferry service, Popeye, Olive and Wimpy decide to undermine the bully by building a bridge instead.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsLou FleischerJack MercerGus WickeAs Popeye makes an order at Bluto's diner, Wimpy causes a fight between them with his shameless mooching.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsLou FleischerJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye, resentful of Olive hiring Bluto to help her move, gets into a competition with the mover.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye takes Swee' Pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire fight on the telephone lines outside Olive's house.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerThe legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeTo impress Olive, Bluto and Popeye try to convince an Army recruiter to sign him up.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeOn the outside of an office building, Popeye and Bluto duke it out as rival window washers.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement with their usual calm, reasoned discussion (this one includes Bluto stuffing Popeye into a garbage can, then launching him with a garden roller, after which Bluto stomps on Wimpy's organ).
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsRoland CrandallMax FleischerThe Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from his backdrop and hides in the wet clay of a bust.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerA hand drawn clown begins interrupting an animator's attempt to draw which in turn leads to the animator spending all his efforts on trying to trap the clown.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerMax and the Inkwell Clown compete to see who can blow the largest bubble.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerKoko the Clown plants a jumping bean that becomes a beanstalk. Later, he creates duplicates of himself and attacks his creator.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerMax goes to bed, leaving Ko-Ko at the peak of a steep mountain. Ko-Ko doesn't stay perched for long, and soon finds himself battling strong winds and upsetting a giant, before entering the real world to exact his revenge on a sleeping Max.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerKo-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquishes Bluto.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeTo get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeBaseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on. As they take the field, Popeye drops his spinach. Bluto eats it, then refills the can with grass. Popeye's team, with Popeye batting first, strikes out. Bluto's team, with Bluto batting fourth, gets 3 singles; Popeye eats his "spinach" (to no avail, of course), and Bluto gets a grand slam homer. Last inning: Bluto's team leads 21-0, Popeye at bat. Bluto's first pitch turns invisible. The second pitch hovers just before the plate. The third pitch turns all kinds of loops at the plate; Popeye has struck out. For some reason, Popeye then takes the mound. After another hit, Popeye plants some spinach seeds, and eats the quick-growing plant. He then throws two quick strikes (which he catches himself), then a hit which he catches himself, and so on, taking a bonus inning and winning the game 22-21.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsLou FleischerJack MercerMae Questel'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye is working in the Useless Machine Works on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble. When Popeye loses his spinach trying to save Olive, Swee'Pea has to eat it for him.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane. As Popeye is falling, he grabs a duck and feeds the duck spinach. The duck manages to fly him up to Bluto's plane, Popeye has some spinach of his own, and he teaches Bluto a lesson. Popeye picks up Olive and crashes the plane into the diner, opening it (and providing a new counter).
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeSwee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye (and Bluto overhears) to cheer him up. The boys compete by doing various silly antics, to no avail. After a while, the antics progress to beating each other up, then Bluto finds excuses to bake and freeze Popeye. Having had enough, Popeye reaches for the spinach, but grabs a can of onions instead. Soon all the adults are crying and now Swee'pea isn't!
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeSwee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeOlive asks Popeye to walk her dog Flyppy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerPopeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsEverett ClarkJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye invites Olive's grandmother along for a New Year's Eve party.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeOlive takes Popeye to Prof. Bluteau to learn some manners.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelWhen Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build a new house with disastrous results.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeBig Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to her. There's an unfair fight, and Popeye is about to be burned at the stake. He drops his spinach, but it cooks and pops into his mouth.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerMax sends Ko-Ko on a rocket toward the moon, but Ko-Ko crash lands on Mars, where he encounters bizarre creatures and contraptions. Meanwhile, Max himself is blasted into outer space.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerMax is inspired by a cute puppy, and gives Ko-Ko a trained dog to show off in a circus ring. The dog performs a variety of tricks, but things get out of hand once Ko-Ko's trained fleas are let loose into the crowd.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerKo-Ko and Fitz find that everything in their cartoon world is moving backwards. After entering the real world, they go inside a clock and move the hands backward, causing life all around the city to run in reverse.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloPopeye sings his theme song and tells the audience to sing along with him by following the bouncing ball.