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musicradio77
05-16-2006, 11:01 PM
From Cartoon Brew (http://www.cartoonbrew.com):

New Yorkers: DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

The Museum Of Modern Art (as part of their annual film preservation festival) will be screening a fully restored color Popeye two reeler, ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP (1939) this Sunday.

The two-reel Popeye short will be playing along with the 1940 verison of "THE MARK OF ZORRO" with Tyrone Power. GO to this screening. This might be your only chance to see an actual full 35mm restoration of one of the Techincolor Fleischer Popeyes, since there's still no agreement between Time Warner and King Features to get a real dvd release of the Fleischer/Famous/Paramount Popeye cartoons. Warner Bros. is preserving the Popeye cartoons regardless, and have had few public screenings of their restorations. Even if you've seen this short a hundred times, I guarantee you haven't seen it like this. Full rich restored color, the original Paramount titles, with crystal clear sound and picture. You are in for a real treat.

ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP will be screening twice: Sunday 5/21 at 3pm and one last chance on Thursday 5/25 at 8:15pm. Again, I beg you NOT to miss this rare opportunity to see this classic cartoon the way it was meant to be seen.

I have the same cartoon on one of the cheap DVD's where it features the AAP opening and closing logo.

TV Knowledge Fan
07-07-2006, 03:19 PM
...when Associated Artists Productions bought the entire Popeye theatrical cartoon inventory from Paramount in 1956, they had to eliminate the Paramount logo from those prints for legal reasons, and substitute an A.A.P.
opening and closing title. Unfortunately, they did so using the ORIGINAL NEGATIVES!!! Thank God most of the original Paramount theatrical prints DO exist, and those (including the print shown at the Museum of Modern Art)
will be included in the Time-Warner DVD releases beginning next year!!

I just KNEW that one you mentioned would turn up eventually, 'musicradio'!!!

:)