Warner Archive: Popeye the Sailor (1940s) First Volume on Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Robert Crawford]

Another must purchase.
POPEYE THE SAILOR: The 1940s, VOLUME ONE (1943-1945)
NEW 2018 1080p HD MASTERS CREATED FROM 4K SCANS OF THE ORIGINAL NITRATE TECHNICOLOR NEGATIVES
Run Time 99:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio 4 X 3 FULL FRAME, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 1.37:1
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Lost at sea for decades – this set collects the first two Technicolor® seasons of Popeye’s animated theatrical shorts (1943-44 and 1944-45), making them available for the first time ever on home video: complete, intact and outrageously funny. What else would you expect from a two-fisted, spinach-munching sailor man?
The 1940s brought new sights and sounds to America’s favorite cartoon star. Regulars Olive Oyl and Bluto return, while Popeye resumes his riotous relationship with his shipmate Shorty and his naughty nephews Pipeye, Poopeye, Peepeye and Pupeye. With the addition of full color, cartoonists were now free to let loose...

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[Robert Crawford]

@Ronald Epstein Reserved for Pre-order Link

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KLPTWGC

 

[dana martin]

Christmas Miracle , Drooling at the prospect, that more will follow, Famous Studios output , would be nice to see the Fleischer's get the same treatment, if WAC want to really up the prospects how about this gem?






From Jerry Beck's Cartoonreserch.com page PLEASE READ

A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE EDITOR OF CARTOON RESEARCH

Presenting POPEYE THE SAILOR: The 1940s Vol. 1 (Warner Archive Collection) Street Date: 12/11/18.

Here we go again. To all of you who wish and hope the vaults of Warner Bros. could reopen to allow more of the classic cartoon treasures to emerge – Now is your time. Here’s what you can do to help (Take Two).

Last year I used whatever super powers I had to make a set of black and white Porky Pig cartoons available in an effort to convince to the studio there was an audience out there for such compilations. After several bumps in the road the set eventually broke even. But “brake even” isn’t good enough for a mega corporation. Long story short – we have one more shot. One. This is it. Perhaps a set of color cartoons, films the collectors do not have, or never had on home video (no VHS, no previous DVD or cable broadcast). A small set – 14 cartoons perhaps.

Here it is – a continuation of the Paramount Popeye cartoons. The next 14. No frills, no bonus materials, no audio commentaries. Transferred from the original Technicolor negatives. Jim Tyer animation. Politically incorrect shorts, uncut. The set will be available, separately, on both DVD and blu-ray.

The website to pre-order is supposedly going up today and we will update this post with the link when we get it. I highly recommend this set – I think you will be pleased. The frame grabs below were snapped off my living room flat screen by my iPhone, off the blu-ray. If this looks good to you – I ask that you pre-order, or order it in December. Let’s prove to Warner Bros. that we want further volumes of Popeye 1940s and 1950s – and we want more Warner and MGM cartoons restored and released. It’s seriously up to you.

if you are serious about animation then this needs to be supported, by sales

 

[Richard M S]

Another Day 1 purchase!

 

[Kyrsten Brad]

At last my life can now be complete.

Now if WA could remaster & release onto Blu the previous DVD (Vol 1-3 I think)
DVD releases.

 

[Lord Dalek]

These shorts are a big step down from the Fleischer era Popeyes. That said its nice to have 'em fully restored considering how awful the aap prints they used to run on TNT and Cartoon Network used to look.

 

[RICK BOND]

WOW ! That picture Quality looks Amazing !! Just like ...Revenge of the Creature. : )

 

[Patrick McCart]

Going to pre-order this, just as I did with Porky 101. These aren't the greatest of the greatest, but I find the 40s Famous Popeyes to be a lot of fun. Seeing them in proper quality will be a big plus because they never looked good on TV.

 

[Timothy E]

Warner Archive has saved the best for last in 2018 with this and The Sea Hawk arriving in December (hopefully with The Thing From Another World and Dark of the Sun coming soon after that!).

 

[McCrutchy]

Now now available to pre-order at WB Shop for $21.99:

https://www.wbshop.com/products/popeye-the-sailor-the-1940s-volume-1-bd

 

[Robert Crawford]

According to Warner Archive's site the pre-order release date is December 11th.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Now now available to pre-order at WB Shop for $21.99:

https://www.wbshop.com/products/popeye-the-sailor-the-1940s-volume-1-bd

Something funky is going on with Warner Archive links. They keep getting redirected to some Lord of the Rings page.

 

[dana martin]

you have to copy and paste the link, then it works, got my pre-orders in that way, BAM; just like that

 

[lark144]

Copy & pasted the link. It worked. Pre-ordered!

 

[Peter Neski]

Now now available to pre-order at WB Shop for $21.99:

https://www.wbshop.com/products/popeye-the-sailor-the-1940s-volume-1-bd

that link is for The Hobbit

 

[B-ROLL]

Something funky is going on with Warner Archive links. They keep getting redirected to some Lord of the Rings page.

Try this one It show more Popeye options ...
https://www.wbshop.com/pages/search-results-page?q=popeye+the+sailor+volume

 

[Bradskey]

Great news!

Man, I hear what Jerry is saying, but I don't know what else I can do. I buy all this animation stuff religiously, but physical disc sales do nothing but decline and the community of classic animation fans is apparently quite small. I guess I could buy two copies, but I see little I can do to get other people to value and buy this classic material when they are A) cheap, and B) satisfied with the kind of abject garbage that gets broadcast nowadays, animated or otherwise.

Whether you like animation or not I think DVDs and Blu-rays have always been the best value in entertainment pretty much ever, and continue to provide the purchaser some autonomy over their content instead of laying back fat and happy on the couch to be spoon fed whatever crap the streaming services decide you can or can't see this month. It's to be expected I guess, but it's to all of our detriment as disc sales lose momentum and critical mass in the market because of this complacency. But I digress.

Also, for those of us who do buy a LOT of animation these sort of back channel warnings from those "in the know" sound awfully accusatory sometimes. WTH else was I supposed to do? I probably bought almost every classic animated DVD release WB ever put out, many of them quite flawed. I get rewarded with abandoned incomplete series and fairly obvious stuff that never gets released at all. I know, I know, I'm not the target and there is an effort to goose sales however they can, it's important, but it's just a perennial thing with classic animation and I get tired of hearing it.

Sorry to be a downer, I do hope this sells well and there are more to come. I grew up on these color Popeye cartoons from Famous Studios and would love to see them all released. But ultimately if Warner Archive can't make it work then I wish they would at least try to license this kind of stuff out to independent shops like Criterion and Olive, who do seem to still be able to make physical media work.

 

[Peter Neski]

Ordered this ,but only care for the first batch of Famous cartoons,I would have preferred Superman

 

[Rodney]

Pre-order in! Keeping my fingers crossed that this sells well enough for future releases.

 

[Bill McCamy]

This thread brought me to the astonishing realization that I've had the first three DVD sets for 10 years and more. I've gone back to those discs and laughed at so many "gags" that as an eight-year-old, I never noticed. Although the Fleischer animations are considered superior to the later Paramount productions, I look forward to this Blu-ray.