The Movie: Popeye
the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves (1937)
What Is It?: A
short one today, but a stunning piece of animation from the Brothers Fleischer.
They use their patented multiplane camera set up to create a 3-D effect that
does not require those goofy (yet groovy) blue-red lenses. And Popeye is
hilarious, always mumbling something bizarre under his breath.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1883, producer Max Fleischer is born.
