Popeye Color Feature

The Popeye Color Features or Popeye Color Specials consist of: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, the only Popeye shorts released in Technicolor by Fleischer Studios, also being double. This is the first of three Popeye Color Specials, the others being including Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (all adapted from One Thousand and One Nights). Many of the scenes in this short feature make use of the Fleischer's multiplane camera "Stereoptical Process", or "Setback Tabletop" process, which used modeled sets to create 3D.

Popeye the Sailor is an American animated series of comedy short films based on the titular comic strip character created by E. C. Segar.

In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios. Many of these shorts were made in the 1950's, when Famous Studios produced the series, although several black and white Popeye shorts produced by Fleischer Studios also fell into public domain. Additionally, all three of the Popeye Color Features made by Fleischer Studios have fallen into the public domain.

Emboldened by their early success, the Fleischers turned out three 'Color Specials', which, at over sixteen minutes each, about three times a normal cartoon's length, were billed in theaters as "A Popeye Feature". They also featured brilliant color instead of the usual B&W and an early 3-D type effect by use of their patented 'multiplane' camera. Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Feature series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 26, 1937 by Paramount Pictures.

It was produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios, Inc. and directed by Dave Fleischer. Popeye Color Features (3 entries) Reviews and Comments No comments posted.

Be the first! (You must be a logged-in user to submit comments!) Scroll to the bottom of the page to submit your own comments. Step aboard for a nostalgic voyage into animation history with A Popeye Color Feature, a vibrant and beautifully restored cartoon by Max Fleischer, presented. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a 1936 two-reel animated cartoon short subject film in the Popeye Color Feature series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 27, 1936 by Paramount Pictures.

This short was the last 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 theaters alongside or above the main feature. Unlike the first two films, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is more Disney -esque in plot and pacing, and does not make use of the Fleischer Tabletop 3D background process.