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One of the best of the Famous/Paramount Popeye cartoons, 7 September 2003
Author:
rgforest from Philadelphia, USA
This cartoon is unusual because there is almost no attempt to animate the
character's mouths. The most likely explanation is that, for whatever
reason, much of the dialog was ad-libbed during the recording
sessions.
Max Fleischer's cartoon studio was one of the few that recorded the voices
after a cartoon was animated, and Famous/Paramount continued this practice
after they acquired the studio.
This was a major contribution to the character of Popeye because it
allowed
Jack Mercer to mutter additional lines that didn't require
animation.
In this cartoon, all three actors' parts appear to have been done this
way.
Their mouths almost never move and the lines that are not synced are the
funniest parts of the cartoon. It nearly overflows with musical puns like
Bluto's "Don't B flat, babe, be natural!'
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