Fleischer &Frame Grabs 10 Apr 2009 08:04 am
Poopdeck Pappy Breakdown
- Following up yesterday’s post, here’s a scene breakdown of the Popeye film With Poopdeck Pappy. This short’s a delight. Done in 1940, it has that textural beauty the Fleischer shorts seemed to inhabit during this short period from about 1937 – 1942.
Bill Nolan was the key animator (animation director) of the short with Winfield Hoskins (I’m not sure who he was) receiving the only other credit. Nolan was known for his incredible speed, so it’s quite possible he animated the lion’s share of this short.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
Pan from left to right.
Pappy walks up in perspective then across the screen
from left to right until he reaches the club.
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on 10 Apr 2009 at 4:33 pm 2.Bob Jaques said …
I doubt that Nolan did much animation in this cartoon. As lead animator/de facto animation director he would have been responsible for laying out the picture and timing it – and possibly doing some incidental character design.
I once saw Winfield Hoskins’ name as the illustrator of a Golden Book. I can’t recall the title though.
I recognize some of the screen grabs as animation done by George Germanetti – particularly the scenes where Popeye stops Pappy from leaving the boat and gives him the lecture about not going out to party and the scene where Popeye follows Pappy back to the boat.
on 10 Apr 2009 at 4:35 pm 3.Bob Jaques said …
My comment should have read ‘lead animator/de facto director – not de facto animation director.
on 10 Apr 2009 at 5:25 pm 4.Tom Minton said …
The start of the shot wher Pappy walks over to the club seems like some live action reference may have been consulted. The arm moves and dance steps move as if more earthbound than the rest of it. It’s certainly a well done, entertaining Popeye cartoon.
on 11 Apr 2009 at 12:12 am 5.John said …
In the group of half-dozen Pappy cartoons the studio did in 1940-41, this apparently was the first put into production, but the second released (after “My Pop, My Pop”), which given Nolan’s reputation for speed would lean towards him not doing much animation, if any, on the short.
on 11 Apr 2009 at 1:09 pm 6.Bob Jaques said …
There’s some re-use animation of Pappy dancing before he walks over to the club that’s from ‘The Dance Contest’.
on 11 Apr 2009 at 1:55 pm 7.Michael said …
There’s also some reuse every time Pappy gets into bed. It’s clever in that the scenes start differently and end with the same, earlier animation.