Tuesday 24 September 2019

Olive Oyl Has Bananas Today

Be Kind to “Aminals” is one of the weaker early Popeyes, but it gives the animators a chance to indulge in a favourite pastime—to twist Olive Oyl into different shapes. Here are some frames as she slips on some bananas as the soundtrack plays the only possible appropriate song.



Willard Bowsky and Tex Hastings are the credited animators.

Oh, you can hear an ancient version of the appropriate song below.

5 comments:

  1. Ha!! Yeah, I figured that would be the tune. Loved the older Popeye Cartoons. The little side comments and mumble offs they would slip in. There's one where Popeye and Bluto are walking in circles about the fight and you hear Popeye mumble "...Oh..your mother wears army boots, also.."

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  2. That’s the same Tex Hastings that apparently blinded Tex Avery in one eye when they were at Lantz...

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  3. I think I remember that song being in a Kellogg's cereal commercial around 50 years ago (for a banana containing cold cereal).

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  4. Hans Christian Brando1 October 2019 at 18:23

    Who does Popeye's voice in that one?

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    1. It's said that Popeye's voice was done in this short
      by the "Radio Popeye" Floyd Buckley.

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