Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp | |
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Izzy Sparber (uncredited) | |
Produced by | Max Fleischer |
Starring | Margie Hines Jack Mercer Carl Meyer Arthur Boran |
Music by | Sammy Timberg |
Animation by | David Tendlar Nicholas Tafuri William Sturm Reuben Grossman |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 21 minutes (two reels) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Specials series, produced in Technicolor and released to theaters on April 7, 1939, by Paramount Pictures.[1] It was produced by Max Fleischer, and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios, Inc., with David Tendlar serving as head animator, and music being supervised by Sammy Timberg. The voice of Popeye is performed by Jack Mercer, with additional voices by Margie Hines as Olive Oyl and Carl Meyer as the evil Wazzir.
Plot
This short features Olive as a screenwriter for Surprise Pictures, working on a treatment of the story of
As in many Popeye cartoons, many of the gags are conveyed using dialogue. As Princess Olive awaits Popeye/Aladdin's declaration of his love, he turns to the camera and remarks "I don't know what to say... I've never made love in Technicolor before!" During the climactic battle between Aladdin and the vizier, Olive screams out "Help! Popeye—I mean Aladdin—save me!!".
Release and reception
This short was the last of the three Popeye Color Specials, which were, at over sixteen minutes each, three times as long as a regular Popeye cartoon, and were often billed in theaters alongside or above the main feature. Unlike the first two films, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is more
Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (all adapted from One Thousand and One Nights), are in the public domain, and are widely available on various home video and DVD collections, usually transferred from poorer quality prints. Warner Bros. has fully restored this cartoon with the original Paramount mountain logo opening and closing titles and is included in Popeye the Sailor: 1938–1940, Volume 2, which was released on June 17, 2008. It also includes a documentary on the making of this cartoon as a bonus feature in this collection. This version also aired one time on Turner Classic Movies' celebration of Fleischer Studios during October 2021.
References
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
- ^ "Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp" (Press release). Fleischer Studios. 1939. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ^ "Magic In Miami". FleischerStudios.com. Retrieved August 14, 2018.