Popeye the Sailor filmography (Fleischer Studios)

1933[]

• First screen appearances of Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto
• A Betty Boop cartoon
• Some TV versions are edited so as to remove scenes depicting racial stereotypes of African Americans
• Bill Costello was the voice of Popeye.

• First entry in Popeye the Sailor series
• First screen appearance of J. Wellington Wimpy
• Rarely airs on television due to the American Indian stereotypes.

• First cartoon with Mae Questel as the voice of Olive Oyl
• Only Popeye cartoon to bear the National Recovery Administration logo

1934[]

• Baby voiced by Mae Questel

• Final appearance of the Out of the Inkwell end title design.

• Cameo appearance by Nana Oyl (voiced by Mae Questel)
• Jules Leotard (aka the Man on the Flying Trapeze) is voiced by Gus Wickie^[4]
• Additional Voices are provided by Lou Fleischer and Charles Carver^[5]

• The first female studio animator, Lillian Friedman, animated several scenes in this film.^{[citation needed]}

• Gus Wickie voices Bluto
• Charles Lawrence voices Wimpy^[6]
• Additional Voices are provided by Charles Carver^[7]
• First cartoon in which Popeye and Bluto compete for work^[8]

• Bonnie Poe voices Olive Oyl
• Mae Questel voices all the Children^{[citation needed]}
• Final appearance of the "Max Fleischer presents" byline

• Charles Lawrence voices Wimpy^[9]
• Additional Voices are provided by Lou Fleischer^[10]

• Gus Wickie voices Bluto^[12]
• Additional Voices by Charles Carver^[11]

• William Pennell voices Bluto
• Additional Voices are provided by Lou Fleischer and Charles Carver^[13]

1935[]

• First use of the "anchor" end title design.

• Floyd Buckley (the voice of Popeye on the Popeye radio program) voices Popeye^{[citation needed]}
• First cartoon with Gus Wickie as Bluto

• Last cartoon with William Pennell as Bluto

• Gus Wickie voices a Prisoner^{[citation needed]}

• First Popeye cartoon with stereoptical (3D background) process.^[14]

• Bonnie Poe voices Olive Oyl^{[citation needed]}

• William Costello's last performance as the voice of Popeye

• First cartoon with Jack Mercer as the voice of Popeye
• Song “I'm King of the Mardi Gras” written by Bob Rothberg and performed by Jack Mercer & Gus Wickie
• Stereoptical process

• Compilation film, scenes from I Eats My Spinach, Wild Elephinks, Axe Me Another, and Popeye the Sailor
• Partial live-action

• Cameo appearance by Castor Oyl

1936[]

• Cameo appearance by George G. Geezil

• Stereoptical process

• Stereoptical process

• Stereoptical process^{[citation needed]}

• Stereoptical process

• First and only Fleischer cartoon in which Olive Oyl eats Popeye's spinach in order to overcome her adversary

• First screen appearance of Swee'Pea
• Stereoptical process
• In the public domain in the United States
• Earliest public domain Popeye cartoon.

• A two-reel Popeye Color Special
• Stereoptical process
• Popeye's first color appearance
• In the public domain in the United States
• Final cartoon where Popeye sings his full theme song whenever he first appears.
• Only Popeye cartoon nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects.

• Compilation film, scenes from Blow Me Down, Choose Your "Weppins", Shoein' Hosses, and King of the Mardi Gras
• In the public domain in the United States

1937[]

• In the public domain in the United States

• The DVD restoration of this cartoon incorrectly copies credits from The Paneless Window Washer, hence the incorrect certificate number, including Willard Bowsky and Orestes Calpini being wrongly credited for the animation.

• Stereoptical process^{[citation needed]}
• Some TV versions, as well as the colorized version, are edited so as to remove the scene where Popeye turns Bluto's sun picture into a black-faced minstrel.

• Popeye feeds Bluto spinach in order to get beaten up and put in the hospital with Olive

• Bluto eats Popeye's spinach in order to best him at baseball

• First time that Swee'Pea eats spinach to save the day

• Stereoptical process
• In the public domain in the United States^{[citation needed]}

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• Popeye feeds a Bird spinach

• Swee'Pea voiced by Mae Questel^{[citation needed]}

• Stereoptical process^{[citation needed]}

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• Bluto's Bulldog voiced by Jack Mercer
• Fluffy the Dog voiced by Mae Questel
• The TV print distributed by Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) atypically had original titles.

• A two-reel Popeye Color Special
• Stereoptical process
• Shows Popeye serving in the U.S. Coast Guard
• In the public domain in the United States

1938[]

• Stereoptical process
• Final cartoon with Gus Wickie as the voice of Bluto

• Final cartoon to feature the voice of Gus Wickie (as Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh)

• First time Margie Hines voices Olive Oyl^{[citation needed]}

• First screen appearance of Eugene the Jeep

• Margie Hines voices Olive Oyl^{[citation needed]}

• First screen appearance of Poopdeck Pappy (voiced by Jack Mercer)
• Spinach is eaten by Poopdeck Pappy
• First and only film appearance of the Goons
• Breaks the fourth wall

• Final Fleischer cartoon with Mae Questel as the voice of Olive Oyl. Margie Hines takes over the role for all remaining Fleischer Popeye cartoons.
• Final Fleischer Popeye cartoon produced in New York City
• Breaks the fourth wall
• In the public domain in the United States

• Final cartoon to feature the original "ship door" opening and closing titles
• Final appearance of the "Adolph Zukor presents" byline
• First Fleischer Popeye cartoon produced in Miami, Florida
• Cop voiced by Frank Matalone
• A new version of the "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" song opens the film

1939[]

• Compilation film, scenes from Let's Get Movin' and The Twisker Pitcher
• In the public domain in the United States
• First appearance of the "Paramount presents" byline
• First cartoon with Pinto Colvig as the voice of Bluto

• A two-reel Popeye Color Special
• In the public domain in the United States

• Jack Mercer also voices Polly the Parrot^{[citation needed]}

• Jack Mercer voices Bluto^[15]

• Pinto Colvig voices Bluto

• Based on Bing Crosby song from the Paramount musical Double or Nothing (1937)
• Jack Mercer voices Bluto^[15]

• Return of the "ship-door" opening segment in a new redesigned version
• Final on-screen credit for E. C. Segar
• Popeye does not eat spinach, as he finds his can empty.

1940[]

• First Popeye cartoon with story credit, given here to George Manuell (as George Manuel)
• Pinto Colvig voices Bluto

• Tedd Pierce voices Bluto

• Pinto Colvig voices Bluto

• Title is a reference to both the Union Pacific Railroad and the 1939 Paramount feature.
• Final appearance of J. Wellington Wimpy in a Fleischer short

• First appearance by Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye and Peepeye (in a dream sequence)

• Rare occasion where Popeye does not eat spinach

• Last cartoon with Pinto Colvig as the voice of Bluto
• Bluto has the spinach can and feeds it to Popeye

• Compilation film, includes scenes from I Never Changes My Altitude, I Wanna Be a Life Guard, Bridge Ahoy!, and Lost and Foundry

• Final film appearance of Eugene the Jeep
• Final cartoon to feature the voice of Pinto Colvig

1941[]

• Footage re-used from 1934's Sock-a-Bye, Baby

• Cameo appearance by George W. Geezil
• Although Olive's name is in the title and she's mentioned, she does not appear in this cartoon.

• Final appearance of the "ship-door" opening segment

• First appearance of the opening segment with Popeye's head and pipe

• First World War II-themed cartoon
• First appearance of Popeye in white U.S. Navy uniform
• 100th Popeye cartoon

1942[]

• In addition to Bluto's redesign to appear more plump, as well as dressed in a naval outfit, Dave Barry voices Bluto^[16]

• Some TV versions are edited for racial stereotyping of Japanese people

• Popeye goes to war in this cartoon.

• First canonical appearance of Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye and Peepeye
• Final Fleischer cartoon with Popeye in his original comic strip uniform

• Tedd Pierce voices Bluto, as well as in Many Tanks

• Final Popeye cartoon by Fleischer Studios