Popeye The Sailor: The 1940s - Volume 3 (1948-1949) Warner Archive - Sept. 17 2019

[CMNPlanet]

Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3 Blu-ray

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POPEYE THE SAILOR: THE 1940s-VOLUME 3 (1948-1949)
Run Time 121:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio 1.37:1, 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50

Prepare for 17 newly presented adventures featuring our favorite spinach-eating sailor man and his lovely leading lady, Olive Oyl. This set finishes out Popeye’s second decade of screen stardom with cartoons originally released to movie theaters in 1948 and 1949. Providing more globe-trotting and time-traveling adventures, the cartoons have been restored to look their lavish best utilizing the techniques of three classic color systems.

The Polacolor process was a short-lived 3-strip technique designed to be an alternative to Technicolor®. The studio gave it a try on a group of cartoons produced during this period, and the results are particularly striking – with fresh restorations that now show their proper, vibrant hues.

In these cartoons, Popeye and Olive travel back to prehistoric times, ancient Greece and the Sherwood Forest. They visit Plymouth Rock and the Old West, then battle assorted baddies in the Egyptian desert, the freezing Arctic and the Ozarks. Of course, Bluto is back as Popeye’s number-one nemesis, tackling the sailor man as a rival lumberjack, a fanatic flying ace and a lecherous vaudeville hypnotist.
But that’s not all. Popeye also has his fists full with a pair of pet dogs, irritating houseflies and a quartet of spinach-hating, sound-alike nephews. He ultimately meets his match when Olive decides to throw her hat in the ring and makes a run for U.S. president!

Hilarious sight gags, gorgeous cartoon art and more action-packed goodness from the golden age of animation: Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3 will leave you rooting – and toot-tooting – for more!

Collection includes:

• Olive Oyl for President
• Wigwam Whoopee
• Pre-Hysterical Man
• Popeye Meets Hercules
• A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
• Spinach vs Hamburgers
• Snow Place Like Home
• Robin Hood-Winked
• Symphony in Spinach
• Popeye's Premiere
• Lumberjack and Jill
• Hot Air Aces
• A Balmy Swami
• Tar with a Star
• Silly Hillbilly
• Barking Dogs Don't Fite
• The Fly's Last Flight

Release Date: Sept. 17

[deto]

Nice. Still need to pick up Vol. 2

[John Lockedown]

Keep. Them. Coming!

[Peavey]

Great news!! Keep them coming.

[solaris72]

I’m not a complicated man. I like cinema. In particular, I like to see cartoons fighting on film. But I don’t want to win an Oscar and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel. I like simple pleasures like vintage animation in HD, and scans from original negatives. That’s just me. That's just something that I enjoy.

[TheLostWarriors]

This is the last volume for them to release, right?

[Leviathan]

Originally Posted by TheLostWarriors

This is the last volume for them to release, right?

At the rate they're going, it would take four more discs to complete the color cartoons.

[John_Drake]

Marvelous news!

Charming cover art too.

[stardragon9]

Originally Posted by deto

Nice. Still need to pick up Vol. 2

Likewise.

[PoorCampBlu]

consider this my pre pre-order

Amazon; I'm watching you!!!

[DawnShadow]

Originally Posted by Leviathan

At the rate they're going, it would take four more discs to complete the color cartoons.

It is the last disc for the 1940s though. They would switch to the 1950's Volume 1 for the next set I'd assume.

Very impressive that they got this out so quick, I was expecting it more to be around December.

[GDG-013]

Finally received Volume 2 the other day after waiting what seemed like forever. Volume 3 is a Go. For the price their selling each set it appears reasonable, to me, for all the demonstrated work that has clearly been placed into the first two volumes. Let the good times continue!

[Dragon78]

Nice.

[jimqk]

Very good news. Now, as we move toward the 1950s, the big question is will WAC include Popeye, Ace of Space in 3-D? Bob Furmanek, if you're listening, please use all of your powers and all of your skills to bend the ears of any contacts you may have in the land of WAC to present Ace of Space in 3-D.

[Boob-Ray]

What's the best place to order other than Amazon? Like many, I just got my volume 2 yesterday and I PRE-ordered it. Yeah, that's right, I said PRE ordered it.

Never, ever again.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by Boob-Ray

What's the best place to order other than Amazon? Like many, I just got my volume 2 yesterday and I PRE-ordered it. Yeah, that's right, I said PRE ordered it.

Never, ever again.

Best Buy or Bull Moose have been two good options.

[javi92]

Keep them coming WAC

[e_d]

Do you think we'll ever get the B&W cartoons on Blu Ray? TCM had been showing them in HD last I checked.

[Ponder Stibbons]

Originally Posted by e_d

Do you think we'll ever get the B&W cartoons on Blu Ray? TCM had been showing them in HD last I checked.

I think if there's enough interest in — and more importantly, sales of — the ongoing Popeye Blu-Ray releases, then Warner Bros. might consider upgrading the B&W cartoons.

Cheers,
JohnH aka Ponder

[Dragon78]

I would love to see older ones get a Blu Ray release.

So how many Popeye shorts did they do in the 1940's?