In India, we the kids born in the mid 70s and in the 80s were the first ones to get exposure to these cartoons on the televisions. Because, in India the color television was introduced at around that time period. Very late, I know. I remember we used to have only morning cartoons and the best cartoons/serial for kids were shown only on Sundays and in out summer holidays.
My memories of that time period may not be pin point accurate, but I remember most of them correctly. The school summer holidays would bring the excitement of the two hour long cartoon and serial show on the DD2 channel. There was the Giant Robot serial, the Invisible Man, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, and other classic shows. My favorite was He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Popeye the Sailor Man, Tom and Jerry, Giant Robot, and more.
Moving a little ahead, in my pre-teens and teens we had exposure to many more all-time favorite shows. Like Tailspin and Duck Tales. There was GI-Joe, Alladin, My Little Pony, Goof Troop and many more.
All those looked very real then, especially I have memories of Giant Robot to be very good. But, now when I see these on youtube and such, they seem just bland. How the technology of making movies have changed in recent times.
But, the animation shows, these were just too good in my childhood. Nowadays the animated shows just lack the fun and detail of yesteryear shows. Tom and Jerry, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and their friends were just too good. Tailspin and Ducktales were especially well made. So was GI-Joe and He-Man. I still have many of the action figures of GI-Joe and He-Man.
Too bad that GI-Joe and He-Man did not traverse that well into motion picture domain. Maybe they required the writers/thinkers of the original to succeed. Hmm, I read somewhere that He-Man itself was based on Conan the Barbarian, go figure. The sequence for He-Man was Movie (Conan) -> Action Figure -> Animated Cartoon -> Movie (He-Man) -> More Action Figures -> More Animated Cartoons, or something like that.
Coming to the topic of the post; Many (or most/all) of the Popeye Classic Toons are now in the Public Domain !!! Wow.
Of course, you could just go to youtube to view these. And, on youtube these are recolored, so better looking. But, you cannot just rip them, give these to your friends, or view without feeling guilty.
You can watch/download the originals (public domain ones) on the Archive.org website. I have made a search query on the website: just go to this address:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A"Popeye"&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A"movies"
to view all Popeye animated movies/shows.
My memories of that time period may not be pin point accurate, but I remember most of them correctly. The school summer holidays would bring the excitement of the two hour long cartoon and serial show on the DD2 channel. There was the Giant Robot serial, the Invisible Man, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, and other classic shows. My favorite was He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Popeye the Sailor Man, Tom and Jerry, Giant Robot, and more.
Moving a little ahead, in my pre-teens and teens we had exposure to many more all-time favorite shows. Like Tailspin and Duck Tales. There was GI-Joe, Alladin, My Little Pony, Goof Troop and many more.
All those looked very real then, especially I have memories of Giant Robot to be very good. But, now when I see these on youtube and such, they seem just bland. How the technology of making movies have changed in recent times.
But, the animation shows, these were just too good in my childhood. Nowadays the animated shows just lack the fun and detail of yesteryear shows. Tom and Jerry, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and their friends were just too good. Tailspin and Ducktales were especially well made. So was GI-Joe and He-Man. I still have many of the action figures of GI-Joe and He-Man.
Too bad that GI-Joe and He-Man did not traverse that well into motion picture domain. Maybe they required the writers/thinkers of the original to succeed. Hmm, I read somewhere that He-Man itself was based on Conan the Barbarian, go figure. The sequence for He-Man was Movie (Conan) -> Action Figure -> Animated Cartoon -> Movie (He-Man) -> More Action Figures -> More Animated Cartoons, or something like that.
Coming to the topic of the post; Many (or most/all) of the Popeye Classic Toons are now in the Public Domain !!! Wow.
Of course, you could just go to youtube to view these. And, on youtube these are recolored, so better looking. But, you cannot just rip them, give these to your friends, or view without feeling guilty.
You can watch/download the originals (public domain ones) on the Archive.org website. I have made a search query on the website: just go to this address:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A"Popeye"&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A"movies"
to view all Popeye animated movies/shows.
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