Patriotic Popeye

Patriotic Popeye
Directed by	Isadore Sparber
Written by	Carl Meyer
Starring	Jack Mercer
Music by	Winston Sharples
Animation by	Robert Owen Frank Endres Tom Johnson
Studio	Paramount Cartoon Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	May 10, 1957
Running time	6:00
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	The Crystal Brawl
Followed by	Spree Lunch
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Patriotic Popeye is a Popeye the Sailor theatrical animated short produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios and released on May 10, 1957.

Plot[edit]

Popeye prepares to celebrate Independence Day with his nephews, who would rather play around with dangerous fireworks to celebrate the holiday. Popeye tries to dissuade the boys from messing with the fireworks and get them involved in safer means of having fun such as playing baseball, having a barbecue cookout and going for a drive through the countryside. The boys pretend to go along with Popeye, but whenever he gets momentarily distracted, the nephews use the opportunity to go after the fireworks which Popeye has locked up in a shed, only to get inadvertently foiled by their uncle.

When the boys eventually succeed in shaking off Popeye long enough to get to the fireworks and start setting them off, Popeye has his hands full trying to keep them from getting hurt and doing any damage. The nephews soon light the fuse to a particularly large firework called the "Atomic Sky Rocket" and hide out in a garbage can for safety, but the firework acts unpredictably as it flies into the ground and then re-emerges and carries the garbage can, with the boys still inside, into the sky with it. Seeing his nephews in danger, Popeye eats a can of spinach and uses his pipe like a jet engine to rocket into the sky, grab the boys and whisk them to safety moments before the firework explodes, turning into a light display of the Spirit of '76.

Soon after, the boys, having learned their lesson, make a game of popping red, white and blue balloons blown up and set adrift by Popeye.

Production notes[edit]

• Patriotic Popeye is one of a number of Famous Studios-produced Popeye the Sailor cartoons in the public domain in the United States.
• This is the last Popeye the Sailor cartoon to feature Popeye's nephews. Only two of the four nephews are featured in the cartoon, and since they are not referred to by name, it is unknown which two of the nephews (Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, Peepeye) are in the cartoon.

External links[edit]

• Patriotic Popeye public domain cartoon at the Internet Archive