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Popeye's Premiere (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Popeye's Premiere
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: La première de Popeye
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.
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Butterscotch and Soda (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Butterscotch and Soda
director: Seymour Kneitel
The housekeeper does her best to get nourishing food into Little Audrey, but the only thing Audrey wants is candy. And she wants lots of it. The housekeeper banishes Audrey to her room, but the cunning girl has sweets hidden in bags that hang outside her bedroom window. The angry servant finds every last piece of candy in the room and takes it away. Soon, Audrey has candy withdrawal and even gets the sweet-tooth version of delirium tremens. A nightmare sends her to a Candy Horror Land where evil candy canes and sinister licorice drops force-feed her all the candy she doesn't want.
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Puttin on the Act (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Puttin on the Act
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Margie Hines
other title: Vive le vaudeville
Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his strength while Olive displays her flexibility and balance; impersonations of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx; and the last act, more feats of strength and agility.
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Land of the Lost Jewels (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Land of the Lost Jewels
director: Izzy Sparber actor: Jackson Beck / Mae Questel …
Two children are fishing when they catch a talking fish named Red Lantern. He takes them underwater with him to the Land of the Lost, where missing items can be found again. They meet King Find All, a walrus, and a singing cricket (Hoppy-Go-Lucky) that used to be the girl's pin. He's deemed to be a special jewel (since he's made of emerald) and is brought to the jewel storage room, despite his wishes to be in the Land of the Toys...
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My Pop, My Pop (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
My Pop, My Pop
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer
other title: Mon brave papa
Popeye's 99-year-old father won't admit he's too old to help Popeye build a ship. Popeye tells him to build one side while he builds the other; Pappy's side is a mess. He falls asleep helping hoist the mast. While Pappy sleeps, Popeye rebuilds his side and finishes the above-decks, with a little help from spinach, of course.
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You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Pinto Colvig / Jack Mercer
Hunky and Spunky are settling in for a nap, but a horse fly sees them and sees dinner. After battling the fly for a while, the youngster enlists dad's help. But the fly is merely stunned, and rallies a new attack, this time with friends. Father eventually kills the lot of them.
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The Cobweb Hotel (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cobweb Hotel
director: 戴夫·弗莱舍 actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel
other title: クモの巣ホテル
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.