Above you see the very first animated cartoon starring Popeye from 1933. This is technically a Betty Boop cartoon with Popeye as a guest, but Betty Boop is only onscreen for a short, but memorable, hula dance with the Sailor Man. This is a classic from the Max Fleischer Studio, directed by Dave Fleischer.

You might also notice that Olive Oyl’s voice is different than what we’re used to hearing. Most of the time both Olive and Betty were voiced by Mae Questal.  Here both of them are voiced by Bonnie Poe because Questal was out on maternity leave. You may also notice that Bluto seems a bit more rapey than in later appearances.

And yes, this is a recycled Sunday Evening Video from eleven years ago. I’m off on an anniversary trip and I figured this might be a good time to re-run this and to plug the folks restoring the classic Fleischer cartoons, whom you can find HERE, HERE and HERE.  The above cartoon is NOT restored by them…yet, but it sure will look great when they do get around to it.