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Popeye the Sailor 1933-1938 Volume 1
April 12, 2007

My dad was a big smoker when I was a kid, and he used to talk with a cigarette bobbing out of the side of his mouth, up and down with each word, and one eye squinting closed to avoid the smoke. I thought he was Popeye.

Maybe that's why I loved those old cartoons. And Warner has remastered 60 of the classical theatrical shorts, packaged unedited into Popeye the Sailor 1933-1938 Volume 1. The four-disc set arrives July 31 (prebook June 26) priced at $64.92.

There's more than nine hours of cartoons in this set. The 60 includes 58 7- to 10-minute B&W shorts and two 20-minute color cartoons, including the Academy Award-nominated "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor."

Plus there's a host of bonuses, including commentaries by historians, animators and filmmakers, which could prove interesting. A set of "Behind-the-Toons" featurettes take in-depth looks at some of the cartoons, characters and creators. And there are three new documentaries: "I Yam What I Am: The Story of Popeye the Sailor Man," "The Evolution of Animation: The History of the Fleischer Studios" (Max Fleischer created Popeye in case you didn't recognize the name) and "Max Fleischer and the New York Style."

And if 60 cartoons weren't enough, the set also serves up bonus Popeye cartoons and bonus Fleischer cartoons, including "Poor Cinderella," "Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy" and "Superman."

We wrote about this set when Warner was developing it. Click here for the story.

Posted by Samantha Clark on April 12, 2007 | Comments (0)