Popeye The Sailor: Volume Three, 1941-1943
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- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerPopeye's Pappy takes a flagpole sitting job atop a tall building without telling Popeye. Popeye goes to rescue him, but he doesn't want to go until an electrical storm hits.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerPoopdeck Pappy has a hangover (though he won't admit to Popeye that's the problem). He asks Popeye to help him by keeping the noise down. Among the disturbances he deals with: a crying baby across the way, a horse-drawn milk truck, a factory whistle, a radio, a traffic accident, a construction site, a blasting site (the Sparber construction company) this one takes spinach. He gets home and hears a party going on upstairs where a recovered Pappy is living it up.
- DirectorDave FleischerArnold GillespieStarsMargie HinesJack MercerOlive gets a phone call that she has won first prize in a sweepstakes, but she can't find her ticket. She finds it, only to have it blow out the window into a woman's belt, into the sea, a fish's mouth, the railroad tracks, a flagpole, etc., etc.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerPopeye is trying to take a nap, but he's plagued by house flies that keep landing on him. He gets rid of most of them, but one in particular seems bent on making Popeye's life miserable, particularly after Popeye makes the mistake of flicking it into a can of spinach.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerRip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for 20 years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but he soon discovers that Rip has a sleep-walking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerPopeye wants to get Olive a fur coat, but after a run-in with dishonest furrier Geezil, decides the best way is to go hunting for a bear himself.
- DirectorDave FleischerWilliam NolanStarsMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye and Poopdeck Pappy are trying to play poker, but Swee'Pea's crying keeps interrupting them. Pappy wants to smack the tot, but Popeye persuades him to try psychology instead. Popeye tells the story of how "George Washlincoln" chopped down the cherry tree. Inspired, Swee'Pea chops a hole in the floor, then tells the truth. Popeye rushes out to buy him a reward, leaving Pappy in charge, but Pappy believes in a rather dangerous style of parenting, introducing him to William Tell (from both ends of the gun). Pappy lies about it to Popeye.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerPopeye runs a small airport. Pappy comes along and wants to be a pilot, but Popeye tells him he's too old. Pappy, dejected, leaves, but manages to start one of the planes parked outside. He flies it, causing much damage. His imminent crash is announced, and Popeye rushes to the site. Fortunately, Pappy is OK.
- DirectorDave FleischerOrestes CalpiniStarsMargie HinesJack MercerOlive's garden is being raided by some very persistent crows; she calls Popeye for help, and it takes him the rest of the cartoon to hit on the solution.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerTedd PierceNewly inducted into the US Navy, Popeye proves hopeless as a conventional seaman until his training ship is attacked by the enemy.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsMargie HinesJack MercerThe villain, Prof. I. Stare, hypnotist, frustrated by not having anyone to practice on, cold-calls Olive at random, while Popeye is pitching woo, and hypnotizes her over the phone into coming to his office. Popeye rushes after her. Olive marches on, oblivious to hazards in her way, which Popeye eliminates. Just as Olive is approaching Stare's office, Popeye eats his spinach, and the "S" on the can flies onto his chest, turning him into another Fleischer hero.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsMargie HinesJack MercerLee RoyceShore leave in South America; Bluto muscles in on Popeye's girl, Olivia Oyla. Popeye muscles him out, but when they get to the conga club, he doesn't care to dance, so Bluto wins again. But a fortuitous can of spinach fixes that, until the shore patrol has their own little conga line.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerAfter disgracing himself in artillery training, Popeye must save his ship from an enemy submarine.
- DirectorDave FleischerAl EugsterStarsJack MercerPopeye's unconventional torpedo-loading technique gets him a mild punishment: he's ordered to stand at attention. Just then, the enemy attacks. He remains at attention, even as a bomb throws him to the top of the mast, where his commander finally notices and orders him to get the planes. Popeye fires on them, but this only draws return fire. He eats his spinach, then turns into a plane himself and attacks.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerPopeye's four nephews try to sneak out instead of eating their spinach, so Popeye demonstrates some of the benefits: playing piano, dancing, shadow boxing but each is met with "But we don't like spinach.". Finally, Popeye spanks them, and they start eating their spinach. After which, they play the piano until it breaks then use boards from the wreckage to spank Popeye.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsMargie HinesJack MercerTedd PiercePopeye and Bluto agree that women are too much trouble, so they agree to swear off them, which lasts about 5 seconds, until Olive comes on board ship for a tour. The boys vie for her attention.
- DirectorDave FleischerMax FleischerStarsDave FleischerMax FleischerKoko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.
- DirectorDave FleischerMax FleischerStarsMax FleischerThis 1924 cartoon features an animated KoKo the Clown and a live-action Max Fleischer. Max has invented a new, electric, drawing device. He uses this to finish the drawing and then, with a somewhat maniacal grin on his face, he turns the device on poor, hapless KoKo.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerKo-Ko the Clown is brought to life with a needle and thread. Max accidentally tears Ko-Ko's paper and stitches him back together. After a fencing duel with his creator, Ko-Ko leaps off the paper and strings thread all over Max's studio.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsMargie HinesJack MercerTedd PierceBluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes by, on the way to a date with Olive; Bluto invites him in, then swaps uniforms (yes, they fit very badly). Popeye ends up in a tank drill, which he does very badly, driving through a house, into a pond, and ultimately falling off a cliff. That's it, it's time for the spinach, and a run for it; he manages to outrun or out maneuver all the other tanks and arrives at Olive's just as Bluto is walking out with her (oddly enough, even though the date with Olive is the motivation for the whole plot, she has only one line). The boys fight in the tank and Popeye swaps uniforms back again, just as the tank boys catch up; that gets Bluto blamed for all of Popeye's hijinks.
- DirectorDave FleischerAl EugsterStarsMargie HinesJack MercerOlive is going shopping and drops Swee'pea off for Popeye to watch. Popeye carves a sailboat for him, but the tyke spots Popeye's battleship, and the puny toy boat will no longer do. He climbs aboard, and there's the expected mayhem. Notable sequences include a stint on the ship's cannon's control board, with Popeye caught on the barrel, then in the gears; also, at the end, Swee'Pea hitches a ride atop a torpedo just as Olive is returning and Popeye's out cold.
- DirectorDan GordonDave FleischerJames TyerStarsJack MercerPopeye takes on the Japanese Navy single-handedly.
- DirectorIzzy SparberDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsDave BarryMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye and Bluto are on leave in the South Seas when Princess Alona (Olive) comes surfing by in her Sarong, a bird perched on her knee. The boys are smitten and chase after her. The bird warns the boys that any harm to the princess will result in death from the local volcano.
- DirectorIzzy SparberAl EugsterStarsDave BarryJack MercerIn a shipyard, Popeye and Bluto compete in each building a ship for a potential exclusive military contract.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerPopeye, punished with tedious chores on an aircraft carrier, leaps into action when a Japanese bomber, hiding behind a fake cloud, attacks the ship.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerPopeye's nephews have been practicing their music and are getting good, but it's bedtime. After Popeye puts them to bed, they discover that many of the things in their bedroom can also be used to make music. And they are also blessed with an uncanny ability to appear to sleep every time Popeye comes to check on them.
- DirectorIzzy SparberJames TyerStarsJack MercerA German sub destroys a rowboat, a buoy, and another German sub (obviously, not the pride of the fleet). Meanwhile, Popeye, with a boat full of "spinach fer Britain", rams into the sub by accident. The sub cuts Popeye's ship in half with machine-gun fire, separating him from the spinach; it then sends a torpedo into the remains, which Popeye collects in a rowboat. Popeye spins the sub upside down, then ends up in a mine field (again barely saving the spinach). After another run-in, the spinach lands in the sub, and Popeye ends up underwater, where he opens his own can and smashes the Nazis into the mine field. He rows the sub full of spinach into the fog and, ultimately, right to #10 Downing Street.
- DirectorDan GordonJames TyerStarsDave BarryJack MercerBluto tries to dodge the draft by fooling Popeye.
- DirectorIzzy SparberJames TyerStarsDave BarryJack MercerBluto decides he's exhausted and needs a complete rest; fortunately, there's a hospital nearby where he can fake exhaustion. Popeye discovers the deception and poses as his nurse.
- DirectorDan GordonJoseph OrioloStarsMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye is doing a great job of sinking Japanese ships (complete with toilet-flush sound effect). A carrier pigeon brings him notice that he's been granted a month furlough, which he plans to spend with Olive and his nephews. However, on arrival, he's run over by Olive, who immediately leaves him alone with his nephews, who are practicing home defense. Popeye falls for their booby-trapped hammock and also barely survives the demonstrations of their other skills, notably camouflage. He ends up in a beehive; the displaced bees take up residence in a gas mask, which a nephew slaps on Popeye; the bees then manage to fly Popeye all through the house and then drop him on the ground, where his nephews bandage him all too thoroughly. That's enough for Popeye, who heads back to the front. The pigeon tries to deliver notice of an extra two weeks furlough, but Popeye will have none of it.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelDave TendlarStarsJack MercerPopeye's planting a victory garden while his nephews are collecting worms for fishing. He berates them for wasting time, and tells them the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, which inspires them to plant beans. Popeye falls asleep, and dreams up a giant beanstalk. His nephews talk him into climbing to the top. Inside the giant's castle, Popeye hides in the cuckoo clock and spots the giant hoarding sugar instead of gold; his hen lays tires, and his storehouses are full of other goods that were rationed in World War II. Popeye tries to walk out with a stack of tires, but the giant stops him, ultimately swatting him with a fly swatter and making him into a sandwich; the giant sprinkles Popeye with pepper, delaying the inevitable spinach briefly. Popeye defeats the giant, and gets him to sneeze all his tires into a carpet. Popeye wakes up, and the victory garden sprouts CANtaloupes (cans), POTatoes (pots), squashes (squashed tires), peaches (good tires), and finally a shoe tree right under the cast.
- DirectorDan GordonJoseph OrioloStarsGilbert MackJack MercerA goat is starving because scrap metal drives have snapped up all the cans. He finds his way onto a battleship - a giant tin can! The first sailor he sees is Popeye, who he is more than happy to turn into a goat himself.
- DirectorDan GordonGraham PlaceStarsMargie HinesGilbert MackJack MercerPopeye's birthday, and Olive managed to get enough rationed sugar to bake him a cake, so she invites him over. Shorty is suicidal because he never gets any mail; Popeye invites him, too. But Shorty is also accident prone. He goes to wash his hands, and manages to flood Popeye right into the sewer. He assembles the ingredients, then manages to get them all over Popeye. Olive tells Popeye to wash up; Shorty runs the water, and we get another flood. Shorty decides Popeye needs to play some games, so they play baseball, golf, and hockey in Olive's living room, all ending disastrously for Popeye. Popeye manages to cut a hole in the floor; Shorty falls in, Popeye throws a rug on it, then Olive arrives carrying the cake and falls in. Soon, everyone's in the furnace in the cellar.
- DirectorIzzy SparberNick TafuriStarsJack MercerPopeye needs a new mast for his new boat, so he starts to cut down a tall tree; however, a woodpecker living in that tree has other ideas. No Olive, Bluto, or spinach in this one; just Popeye and the bird, sounding rather like Edward G. Robinson.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelOrestes CalpiniStarsMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye sits down to make a cartoon. He shows the results to Olive and his nephews: it's a damsel-in-distress scenario, starring him and Olive, with live music and sound effects by Popeye.
- DirectorGreg FordMark NassiefStarsGary OwensDonald CraftonMark LangerDocumentary traces the evolution of animation from 1921-1930.
- DirectorMax FleischerF. Lyle GoldmanStarsCarlyle EllisBilly MurrayWalter ScanlanAnimated figure Talkie gets a visit from his friend Mutie in search for a job. Talkie takes him to the Western Electric sound lab, where a technician explains the process of putting sound on film and reproducing it in the theatre.