| Cartoons Ain't Human | |
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Cartoons Ain't Human (released on September 3, 1943) is Popeye's 122nd cartoon, the last to be produced in black and white by Famous Studios.
Plot[]
Popeye produces countless drawings to create a homemade animated cartoon. Afterwards, he shows it to an eager audience consisting of his nephews and Olive Oyl: his masterpiece, entitled "Wages of Sin (Less 20%)" features effects and music by him (the hornpipe included) and stars the cartoon-in-a-cartoon version of himself, Olive and a cow as they contend with "Roger Blackleg", a mustachioed, Willy Wormwood-esque antagonist. After the villain unsuccessfully tries to woo Olive then abducts her, she telephones Popeye, who was away finding his fortune. A lengthy chase ensues on horseback, over the water, and even on bull/turtle-back or kangaroo-pouch as Olive is cruelly tied to railroad tracks by Roger Blackleg. When one of the boys in the audience accidentally hits the high-speed switch, the chase becomes ever more frantic and the presentation slides all along the walls, from the projector moving out of place. The animated film is attentively followed to its happy spinach-filled conclusion as finally projected onto Olive's nose.
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Trivia[]
- This was the last Paramount cartoon filmed in black and white.
- Interestingly, Olive being tied to the railroad tracks and saved by Popeye at the end bears a strong resemblance to the end of the inaugural Popeye the Sailor cartoon from Fleischer Studios; considering that this was the final black and white short, both episodes make for fitting bookends to the era.
- The redrawn print incorrectly uses the "Max Fleischer" title card of Popeye The Sailor.
- Final Paramount cartoon to use the 1938 Paramount Cartoons logo (used in the Fleischer Studios era). Starting with the next cartoon, Her Honor the Mare, Famous Studios began using their own version of the logo.
- This marks the final cartoon to have the Paramount Cartoons logo with clouds, until their eventual return in 1948.
External links[]
- Cartoons Ain't Human at the Internet Movie Database