WHAT YEAR WAS KING FEATURES Syndication POPEYE WAS MADE

[studd911]

Does anybody no what year did king features syndication make popeye cartons

[tv star collector]

1961 (well, they were SYNDICATED in 1961; which means they were probably produced in 1960).
Jack Mercer, Mae Questel and Jackson Beck reprised their roles as Popeye, Olive Oyl and Brutus
(formerly called Bluto). Mercer also voiced Wimpy and incidental characters. Questel was also
the voice of Swee' Pea and the Sea Hag. Jack Kinney was the producer.

[musicradio77]

That was right after Paramount's Popeye cartoons from the Flesicher/Famous era had closed its doors until KFS carried the later Popeye cartoons from 1961.

[bossradio93]

Originally Posted by studd911

Does anybody no what year did king features syndication make popeye cartons

As the other members have said, there was a newer version to the Popeye cartoons especially made for the small screen. After many of the major studios closed their animation departments in 1957 due to high production costs and the rise of television (later William Hanna and Joseph Barbera would leave MGM to form their own production company after MGM closed their animation department in the same year), a new version of Popeye was made. They weren't the best Popeye animation, not even close to Warner Bros., MGM, Hanna-Barbera, etc., but they were still a joy to look at since the five-minute shorts aired weekdays on both KTTV channel 11 and KCOP channel 13 in Los Angeles for many years. KTLA channel 5 aired the Max Fleischer/Paramount/Famous Studios version of the Spinach eating legend for years and the shorts were hosted by Los Angeles childrens television host, Tom Hatten, now an entertainment reporter for CBS owned KNX-AM Newsradio (1070)

The Popeye 75 anniversary collection contains the 5-minute shorts produced by King Features Syndicate TV that aired on local television stations throughout the country even during the legendary "Bozo Show" on WGN-TV channel 9 in Chicago.

There's a page you can see for yourself of the special Popeye collection entitled "Popeye (75th Anniversary Collector's Edition") released in 2004 by clicking here.

In this collection, around 85 or 86 of the five-minute Popeye (made for TV) cartoon shorts are in the package.

[TV Knowledge Fan]

...more than 220 Popeye TV cartoons, King Features TV farmed out the animation to FIVE studios {Jack Kinney's unit; Larry Harmon's outfit, which also produced the "BOZO" TV cartoons at the same time; Paramount,
in New York; Shull Bonsall's TV Spots/Creston Studios; and one other studio whose name I have forgotten at the moment--it'll come to me eventually!}.
Two years worth of cartoons was what King Features got, and they made a TON of money from it, and the decades that followed........

[Mikado]

Those cartoons were of fair to poor quality, art-wise....not only didnt Popeye look anything like the comic strip character in them, but, they often forgot WHICH eye was supposed to be missing ( it should be his right eye) : Sometimes they made it the left eye, or, in some films, it changed from right to left and back several times during the same film...Ive even seen some where Popeye had BOTH eyes OPEN!!! ( Hard to do when you have a missing eye, to begin with @_@ !!! )