Animation &Fleischer &Frame Grabs &walk cycle 09 Apr 2009 08:00 am
Poopdeck Pappy’s walk
I received this delightful note from Borge Ring:
dear michael ♫♫
You sometimes bring stuff on Popeye
There is a Popeye I like very much. It was animated by Bill Nolan in 1940 and the title is Poopdeck Pappy.
I stumbled on this short on internet and realised why Preston Blair had such a high opinion of Nolan.
Blair is quoted by – if I remember right – Charles Solomon in his book.
writes
Børge
So I ran back to the film (which I know very well.) I’ve made a lot of frame grabs and was going to do a sort of mosaic (without the information that a draft might give me), but it’s taking a lot of time.
Consequently, let me make a post of this brilliant walk. There are many of them in this film and lots of hilarious dances. It’s all so balletic and rhythmic. I urge you to listen to Børge, watch the film again. It’s an absolute beauty; this is my favorite period of Fleischer’s work.
Here’s Poopdeck Pappy’s jaunty walk:
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Click left side of the black bar to play.
Right side to watch single frame.
on 09 Apr 2009 at 12:42 pm 1.Tom Sito said …
Nice to hear Borge is going strong. Great article.
on 09 Apr 2009 at 1:46 pm 2.Dan Caylor said …
Great walk!
on 09 Apr 2009 at 1:55 pm 3.Larry Levine said …
Awesome!!!
on 09 Apr 2009 at 3:42 pm 4.John said …
Aside from the animation here, Nolan was really the only director at Fleischer who figured out how to handle Pappy (other than his initial appearance in “Goonland”) without making him more annoying than funny to the audience — the answer being to let him cause havoc with other people besides Popeye, as with the great bar scene in this cartoon, and his battle with Swe’Pea in “Child Psykolojiky” (where Pappy finally goes up against someone who’s tougher than he is).
on 09 Apr 2009 at 4:49 pm 5.bob kurtz said …
BORGE RING!!!!!so nice to know he still going strong. a dear friend whom address and such i have lost.
what a talent!
on 14 Apr 2009 at 6:41 pm 6.Steve Segal said …
Wow, Bill Nolan, Borge Ring and Popeye in one post. I love Ring’s animation at least as much as I love Fleischer’s. Didn’t Nolan invent the panning background back in the silent days? What a talent!
Michael,
Did you ever get my email about Michel Ocelot? Write me back. Thanks
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