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The Animation is a considerable cut back from even the later Famous Shorts, and it only occasionally finds a clever way to work within the restriction of the new medium. It has had some reappraisal in recent years though. Fred Grandinetti, who has written quite a few Popeye tomes over the years, wrote and released a book focusing on their ...
Prior to the name change to Brutus, the bearded strongman was known as "The Big Guy Who Hates Popeye," "Junior," "Mean Man," and "Sonny Boy" in the comic strip and comic books. The name "Brutus" was first used on Popeye-related products in 1960 and in print in 1962. It is generally accepted that Bluto and Brutus are one and the same.
Bluto was introduced into the Thimble Theater strip as "Bluto The Terrible, lower than bilge scum, meaner than Satan, strong as an ox, and just about the only man who could lick Popeye" in a story titled The Eighth Sea which was running in the newspapers when The Fleischers decided to make an animated version.
Originally posted by Popeye But hidden from public view. The 60's Popeye cartoons are owned by King Features Syndicate, while the theatricals are owned by Warner Bros. Warner's would have to pay for airing those particular cartoons; that's the same reason we don't get to see cartoons featuring the Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, the Harveytoons characters, etc-they don't want to fork over the ...
According to Bud Sagendorf's 1979 book, "POPEYE: THE FIRST 50 YEARS": "In films and television, Brutus is called Bluto. In the fifties, after a disagreement over the origin of the name, he became known as Brutus--in comic books and newspaper strips." Thus, in the Paramount theatrical shorts he was rechristened "Bluto." But,
I have seen merchandise calling him Brutus using the Bluto from the Fleischer design, and then Bluto too. But, if there was a cartoon using Bluto and Brutus together, that clears it up from a non-legal standpoint. Somehow I think I actually saw a Brutus cartoon or two, but I don't know how or where, as those cartoons are long gone.
The Popeye Show had 45 episodes which featured, all in all, 135 shorts - 98 (of 106) Fleischers (not including the 2-reelers), and 37 (of 122) Famous's, which totals out to 59% of Popeye's theatrical career. 8 Fleischers and 85 Famous's were ignored (because, I think, the original ending music and/or titles weren't found).
May 26, 2006. #3. The theatrical Fleischer/Famous/Paramount Popeye cartoons have always been under separate ownership from the TV cartoons- both the 1960-62 KFS and 1978-81/'87 H-B series. A.A.P., a subsidiary of United Artists, bought the theatricals many years ago.
There are a number of cartoons where Popeye doesn't eat spinach, and there are even three where he beats Bluto without eating any Spinach -- "Wotta Nightmare" (He wakes up from a dream and finds he's been eating his matress stuffing), "Cooking with Gags" (He tricks Bluto with an inflatable sea monster on April Fool's Day) and "I Don't Scare" (It looks like they cut the spinach eating pert here ...
Conversely the idea that Popeye was created for the Fleischer shorts; this famously was a bit of a problem for the 1980 live action movie that was written by Jules Feiffer, a purist for the original Thimble Theatre E.C. Segar strips (if not necessarily performed or directed that way), a vision that did not particularly coincide with how the ...