The song featured in this cartoon was the Popeye theme song "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man", written by Sammy Lerner. The animation for this film is taken from the first Popeye cartoon, Popeye the Sailor, which was originally presented as part of the Betty Boop series.
The entire cartoon is approximately two minutes long, with over half of that given to the credits and the bouncing ball. This shorter than normal cartoon was produced as a regular weekly feature for Paramount's Saturday morning matinee "Popeye Club".
Popeye is singing his theme song as he strolls along the deck of a sailing ship. He punctuates the lines of the song with three demonstrations of his strength. With a single punch, he reduces the ship's anchor to a pile of fish hooks. The large ship's clock meets a similar fate, ending as an assortment of watches and alarm clocks. Finally, a small mast is reduced to clothes pins.
The animated portion of the cartoon ends after about 45 seconds, and the rest of the cartoon presents the words of the song and the "famous bouncing ball" so that the audience can "Sing with Popeye".
Notesedit
In 1935, Paramount added to Popeye's popularity by sponsoring the "Popeye Club" as part of their Saturday morning matinee program. Let's Sing with Popeye was a regular part of the weekly meetings, along with other cartoons, movies, prize giveaways and other activities. Paramount provided a manual to theatre owners, telling them how to organize a Popeye Club, but the specific details were left to the local theatre owners and varied from one theatre to another.
Availabilityedit
This cartoon with the original Paramount mountain logo opening title and the original Paramount inkwell closing title is available on DVD as a special feature on disc four of Popeye the Sailor: 1933–1938, Volume 1.
Referencesedit
^Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 130. ISBN978-0-8160-6600-1.
External linksedit
Let's Sing with Popeye at IMDB
Let's Sing with Popeye at the Big Cartoon Database
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sing, with, popeye, 1934, screen, songs, animated, short, produced, fleischer, studios, directed, dave, fleischer, directed, bydave, fleischerproduced, bymax, fleischerstarringwilliam, costello, popeye, music, bysammy, lerneranimation, byseymour, kneitelroland. Let s Sing with Popeye is a 1934 Screen Songs animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and directed by Dave Fleischer 1 Let s Sing with PopeyeDirected byDave FleischerProduced byMax FleischerStarringWilliam Costello Popeye Music bySammy LernerAnimation bySeymour KneitelRoland CrandallColor processBlack and whiteProductioncompanyFleischer StudiosDistributed byParamount Publix CorporationRelease date1934 1934 Running time2 09CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish The song featured in this cartoon was the Popeye theme song I m Popeye the Sailor Man written by Sammy Lerner The animation for this film is taken from the first Popeye cartoon Popeye the Sailor which was originally presented as part of the Betty Boop series The entire cartoon is approximately two minutes long with over half of that given to the credits and the bouncing ball This shorter than normal cartoon was produced as a regular weekly feature for Paramount s Saturday morning matinee Popeye Club Contents 1 History 1 1 Summary 1 2 Notes 1 3 Availability 2 References 3 External linksHistory editSummary edit Popeye is singing his theme song as he strolls along the deck of a sailing ship He punctuates the lines of the song with three demonstrations of his strength With a single punch he reduces the ship s anchor to a pile of fish hooks The large ship s clock meets a similar fate ending as an assortment of watches and alarm clocks Finally a small mast is reduced to clothes pins The animated portion of the cartoon ends after about 45 seconds and the rest of the cartoon presents the words of the song and the famous bouncing ball so that the audience can Sing with Popeye Notes edit In 1935 Paramount added to Popeye s popularity by sponsoring the Popeye Club as part of their Saturday morning matinee program Let s Sing with Popeye was a regular part of the weekly meetings along with other cartoons movies prize giveaways and other activities Paramount provided a manual to theatre owners telling them how to organize a Popeye Club but the specific details were left to the local theatre owners and varied from one theatre to another Availability edit This cartoon with the original Paramount mountain logo opening title and the original Paramount inkwell closing title is available on DVD as a special feature on disc four of Popeye the Sailor 1933 1938 Volume 1 References edit Lenburg Jeff 2009 The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons 3rd ed New York Checkmark Books p 130 ISBN 978 0 8160 6600 1 External links editLet s Sing with Popeye at IMDB Let s Sing with Popeye at the Big Cartoon Database Paramount s Popeye Club nbsp This article related to a short animated film is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Let 27s Sing with Popeye amp oldid 1198728464, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
