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From: m128a3aw@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Sean "Yoda" Rouse)
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Subject: Popeye & Max Fleicher
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 00:28:58 EST
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In article <545@drutx.UUCP> dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) writes:
>>> Don't your remember the days of Bugs Bunny, The Roadrunner,
>>> Droopy, and The old Scooby-Doo?  Now, THOSE were cartoons.
>>> 
>>> Smiley.                     
>
>>I do have to add a few others,
>>though, especially MY favorite, "Tom & Jerry", circa mid 1950's. Also as
>>honorable mentions, "Yogi Bear", "Rocky and Bullwinkle", "Super Chicken",
>>"George of The Jungle" (we're talking OLD here!!!!).

George of the Jungle, Super Chicken, old? wait a sec, those are'nt old for
cartoons. Felix the Cat is older by far (did you know that Felix was the
first network tv show ever broadcast?) but if you want to talk about old
cartoons....

>Does anybody remember the Max Fletcher (sp?) cartoons of Popeye.  They
>were fun, and I still marvel at how meticulous the artwork was done.
>The details, even in the background, was so fine and sharp that you could
>see individual leaves in the trees, bricks in the buildings, and stones
>and ruts in the roads.  The perspective gave a real sense of depth.  As
>scenes are panned, images move as they would in real life.  As I kid, I
>first saw them in the 50's, but I know they are older than that.  Good
>stuff.

Max Fleicher's (sp?) Popeye's are old. We're talking black and white stuff.
Yes, I remember them. They used to show them on Captain Kangaroo when I was
a VERY little kid. It's been quite a while since I last saw Popeye (except
for the newer ones with Brutus, the Sea Hag, the Goon, the Jeep, etc. which
WTBS shows during Bugs Bunny and Friends) but I still remember them. Fleicher
also did some other stuff (Kathy, do you want to follow up this one for me?)
including some Superman stories which are on video tape (go by your nearest
Target! store) but I don't know anything more than that. Anyway, I think most of
Fleicher's Popeye is 1930's stuff. If you watch any of them, you should notice 
that the animation is better than what Disney put out in black and white.

After Fleicher, Popeye was picked up by Paramount. More people have probably
seen these, bacause they're in color. After that, King Features made some more
and then lastly Popeye came back in the late seventies or was it eighty for
one season on Saturday morning.

Now for a comment: Wouldn't it be nice if they had video tapes of good old
uncut classic cartoons. We're talking Max Fleicher, MGM, Warner Bros., and
other real oldies.

					-Sean "Yoda" Rouse
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