Original subtitles

For the next hour, we're counting down seven

of the greatest cartoons ever made,

starring Superman, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,

Betty Boop, Popeye, and many more.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy

the "Greatest Cartoons of the Golden Era, Volume 2."

(dramatic music)

Hi, I'm Charles Dewandeler and welcome

to "Greatest Cartoons of the Golden Era, Volume 2."

If you enjoyed our first compilation,

you'll love volume two

because these cartoons are even better.

Our first cartoon is a spoof of the 1942 movie,

"The Man Who Came To Dinner."

The cartoon is called "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper,"

and it stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

Enjoy.

(dramatic music) (dogs barking)

(leaves rustling) (dramatic music continues)

(dramatic music continues) (dogs barking)

(Bugs Bunny panting)

I'm trapped. Trapped.

I gotta get out of this.

I gotta think fast.

Trapped.

(dogs barking) (bright music)

Oh boy, they trapped the wabbit. (laughs)

(playful music) (dogs barking)

(Bugs Bunny barking)

(chuckles) Look fellas, I'm Rin Tin Tin.

(Bugs Bunny barking)

(ominous music) - Now I gotcha.

You're a dead wabbit.

(scooter puttering)

Telegram for Elmer Fudd.

(scooter puttering)

Eh, what's up, doc?

"Dear Nephew, am leaving you $3 million in my will.

Uncle Louie."

Oh boy, I'm rich. I'm rich!

"P.S. But you don't get one cent

if you harm any animals, especially rabbits."

(upbeat music)

You're free now, little wabbit.

Go and romp and frolic in the forest.

Oh boy, I'm rich.

(upbeat music continues)

Okay, fellas, break it up. Break it up.

$3 million.

(water pattering) (Bugs Bunny vocalizing)

♪ Angel in disguise ♪

(Bugs Bunny vocalizing)

(piano note pinging) (Bugs Bunny vocalizing)

(door slams)

(Bugs Bunny vocalizing) (water pattering)

♪ Angel in disguise ♪

Come on out or I'll blow your head off.

(cork squeaks)

(water pattering) (Bugs Bunny vocalizing)

♪ I'm just an angel in disguise ♪

(Bugs Bunny vocalizing)

(razor buzzing) (gentle music)

Please, Mr. Wabbit, go on back

to the forest where you belong.

Be a nice wittle wabbit.

Ooh, ouch, ouch!

Hey, what are you tryin' to do? Kill me?

Hey, you'll fracture my skull!

I'm gonna call Uncle Louie, that's what I'm gonna do.

(dramatic music)

Operator. Operator. (phone clicking)

Hey, you got a nickel?

(gentle music)

Hello, Operator? Operator?

Gimme Walnut Tree 350.

Oh, that you, Mert?

How's every little thing?

Please, Mr. Wabbit, don't call Uncle Louie.

I won't hurt you again, I promise.

Well, okay, but watch your step after this, fat boy.

Hey, what do you got to eat around this joint?

Eat?

Eat. I'll fix this guy.

Thinks he'll trick me, huh?

Step right this way. (suspenseful music)

(door slams)

That'll fix him. (laughs)

Why, that dirty double-crosser.

(fists pounding) Let me in! Open up!

(suspenseful music)

(dramatic music) (Bugs Bunny coughing)

Hey, I'm getting' pneumonia. (coughing)

Open up. (coughing)

My God, I'll die.

(fists pounding)

No, I'm too young to die.

Please, please let me in.

(somber music)

Hey, this scene oughta get me the Academy Award.

(somber music)

(gasps) Say goodbye to Uncle Louie for me.

(Bugs Bunny sighs)

Uncle Louie?

(dramatic music)

What have I done?

$3 million all shot to pieces.

Don't die wittle wabbit. (crying)

Please don't die.

♪ Rock-a-bye baby on the treetop ♪

♪ When a wind blows the cradle ♪

(knuckles tapping)

Come on, fat stuff. Swing it.

♪ Rock-a-bye baby on the treetop ♪

♪ When the wind blows, the cradle will rock ♪

♪ When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall ♪

♪ Down will come baby ♪

(doorbell buzzing)

[Deliveryman] Special delivery.

"Your Uncle Louie has kicked the bucket.

You now inherit $3 million.

Inheritance Tax, two million, Defense Tax, (mumbling)

which leaves you owing us $1.98.

Please remit."

You don't get the dough, eh, butterball?

No, but I'm gonna get you!

(dramatic music)

Yipe!

(dramatic music continues)

(slide whistle descends)

(playful music)

(ears smack)

(ear whooshes) (gentle music)

(dramatic music) (Bugs and Elmer whooshing)

(clock chiming)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Yippee! Hooray!

Happy New Year!

♪ Should auld acquaintance be forgot ♪

♪ (singing gibberish) to mind ♪

♪ Should auld acquantaince ♪

♪ Be forgot in the ♪ - Why you.

Well, yipe again!

(dramatic music) (Bugs and Elmer whooshing)

(playful music) (footsteps tapping)

(Bugs Bunny thuds)

(dramatic music)

Don't go down there. It's dark.

(dramatic music continues)

(feet scrape)

(door slams)

(gentle music)

(dramatic music)

(feet scrape)

(dramatic music continues)

(Bugs Bunny screams)

(door slams)

(gentle music)

(suspenseful music)

(door slams)

(furniture clattering) (dramatic music)

(Bugs and Elmer whooshing) (dramatic music continues)

(door slams)

(gentle music)

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

(doorbell buzzes)

Easter greetings

(package thuds) (playful music)

(package pops)

[Bunnies] Eh, what's up, doc?

(bright dramatic music)

(bright dramatic music)

Today we're gonna watch not one,

but two of the greatest Superman cartoons ever made.

The first cartoon reminds me

of recent movies I've seen like "Terminator,"

which feature robots with artificial intelligence

trying to take over the world.

This cartoon is a similar concept,

but it came out over 80 years ago.

Here now is Superman in "The Mechanical Monsters."

(dramatic music)

[Narrator] Faster than a speeding bullet,

(Superman pings)

more powerful than a locomotive,

(train chugging)

able to leap tall buildings at a single bound,

this amazing stranger from the planet Krypton,

the Man of Steel,

(gong booms)

Superman!

(dramatic music)

Empowered with x-Ray vision,

possessing remarkable physical strength,

Superman fights a never-ending battle

for truth and justice

disguised as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, Clark Kent.

(dramatic music continues)

(broken glass clanking) (machine whirring)

(doors clattering) (machine whirring)

(machine whirring)

(machine whirring)

(electricity zapping)

(machine whirring)

(machine whirring) (electricity zapping)

(electricity zapping)

(arms clank)

(electricity zapping) (bills fluttering)

(electricity zapping)

(ominous music) (footsteps thudding)

(ominous music continues)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(gentle music)

Lois! What are you doing here?

Oh, just getting the woman's angle on this story.

(whistle blaring) (machine whirring)

The mechanical monster! Look out!

(dramatic music) (machine whirring)

(guns firing) (machine whirring)

(dramatic music) (guns firing)

(dramatic music continues) (glass breaking)

(dramatic music continues) (gun firing)

Come on, you fool. Do you wanna get trampled?

(dramatic music continues)

Now you wait here, I'll phone this in.

(dramatic music continues)

(coin clicks)

(dramatic music)

Yes, I'll give you the details later, Chief.

(dramatic music continues)

All right, Lois...

Lois!

(dramatic music)

(machine whirring) (guns firing)

This is a job for Superman.

(dramatic music)

(suspenseful music)

(dramatic music) (machine whirring)

(triumphant music)

(lasers whirring) (machine whirring)

(triumphant music continues)

(alarm dinging)

(machine whirring) (dramatic music)

(Lois screams)

(electricity crackling) (dramatic music)

(Lois screams)

(machine whirring)

(soft ominous music) (machine whirring)

What a story this is going to make.

(tense music)

The jewels. What have you done with the jewels?

You'll read about it in tomorrow's paper.

Are you going to tell me what happened to those jewels?

(dramatic music)

(electricity crackling) (dramatic music)

(soft tense music)

(suspenseful music)

(liquid sloshing)

(suspenseful music continues)

(liquid bubbling) (suspenseful music continues)

So you won't tell me.

(suspenseful music continues)

You'll soon change your mind.

(metal whirring and clanking)

(dramatic music)

(fists pounding)

(triumphant music)

(dramatic music)

Superman.

(tense music)

(electricity crackling) (dramatic music)

(footsteps thudding) (dramatic music)

(fire whooshing) (dramatic music continues)

(metal clanking) (dramatic music)

(triumphant music)

(metal clanking and thudding) (tense music)

(metal crashes)

(metal crashes) (dramatic music)

(fire whooshes)

(door thuds)

(dramatic music continues) (metal clanking)

(wood clattering) (dramatic music continues)

Take one more step and she's doomed.

(dramatic music continues)

(triumphant music)

(suspenseful music) (liquid bubbling)

(liquid sloshing and hissing)

(triumphant music)

(suspenseful music)

(triumphant music)

That's a wonderful story, Lois.

Thanks, Clark, but I owe it all to Superman.

(triumphant music)

Our next cartoon is directed by legendary Chuck Jones

and Star's Daffy Duck with Elmer Fudd.

This time, Elmer Fudd is taking a break

from hunting rabbits so he can hunt ducks.

Daffy Duck doesn't like this very much,

so he challenges Elmer to a boxing match.

Enjoy.

(gentle music) (ducks quacking)

(suspenseful music) (gun fires)

(Daffy vocalizing) (gentle music)

(gun fires)

Duck shot. (whooping)

(gun fires)

More duck shot.

Confidentially, those hunters couldn't hit

the broad side of a duck.

(gun fires)

(Daffy sniffing)

Ah! They got me. (groaning)

Yipe.

(torpedo whistling)

(Daffy thuds)

[Elmer] Get him, Laramore.

Retrieve him. Retrieve him.

Take it easy, Rover.

That's no way to retrieve a duck.

Look.

(ominous music) (Laramore thuds)

Gentle like. See, Laramore?

(mouth creaks)

Hello.

Sorry I had to plug you, Mr. Duck, but I am a sportsman,

a great, great sportsman. (laughs)

A great sportsman, eh?

(Daffy scoffing and huffing)

Sportsman.

Listen, sport, you don't know the meaning of fair play.

What chance has a poor, helpless,

fluffy little winged creature like me against you?

You with your bullets, and your shotgun,

and your knife, and your duck call, and your hunting coat,

and your hunting dog, and all kinda stuff like that there!

What protection have I got?

A bulletproof vest, I suppose. (chuckles)

How did that get there?

How would you like to meet me in a fair fight, Mr. Sport?

All things being equal, man to man,

Marquise of Queensbury rules.

Huh? (scoffs)

That's different, eh?

Yeah, that's somethin' else again.

Yeah, you don't like that, do ya, sportsman?

No. Yeah, yeah.

You don't like it, huh? (grunting)

(hat thuds)

Don't like it.

(dramatic music)

Ladies and gentle ducks!

In that corner...

(announcer laughing)

In that corner. (laughing)

He's a dog. (laughs)

You can have him. (laughs)

What a tramp. (laughs)

Elmer Fudd.

Hello.

(crowd booing)

Hooray!

(objects clattering)

And in this corner, a duck who needs no introduction,

that outstanding exponent of clean sportsmanship,

that champion of champions, your friend and mine,

our own, our beloved Daffy "Good to His Mother" Duck.

(crowd cheering)

Boo!

(objects clattering)

Now boys, fight clean.

[Crowd] Oh brother!

No rough stuff.

None of this. (elbow thuds)

Or this. (foot thuds)

Or this. (foot thuds)

Or like so. (tail feather thuds)

Or this, or this, or this. (feet thudding)

You understand?

(bright music)

- Yeah, you mean none of this. (elbow thuds)

Or this. (bell dings)

Or like so. (foot thuds)

Or this. (metal reverberates)

Or this. (spring boings)

Or this, or this? (cymbal crashes)

Or this, huh? (horn honks)

How about a little of this?

(punch thuds)

(ropes snap)

Absolutely uh-uh.

You know, there's something awfully screwy

about this fight, or my name isn't Laramore.

And it isn't.

(playful music)

You got him punchy, champ.

He's practically a dead duck already.

Now get in there and fight.

Go on in there, knock him out!

Give it to him, champ.

Let him have it, champ!

Huh, gettin' a little thin on top.

How about a little somethin' to stimulate the scalp?

(dramatic music) (glass breaks)

(feet whooshing)

(dramatic music) (crowd cheering)

Now shake hands.

(jaunty music)

Which hand do you take?

Mm, uh, that one.

Nope.

Wrong. Guess again.

All right, all right, I'll take that over there. (laughs)

Ain't he a dope?

Ya sure this is the one you want?

(Elmer laughs)

You're right! (cymbal crashes)

It's the right one.

And here's round one comin' up.

(bell dings)

One, three, nine, ten, you're out!

The winner and new champion, Daffy Duck!

(bright music) (crowd cheering)

I'm not the one to complain, Mr. Referee,

but I thought you said no rough stuff.

None of this, or this, (elbows and fists thudding)

or this, or like so. (horn honks)

Or this, or this, or this! (dramatic music)

(upbeat music)

(stammers) That's all, folks!

It seems like in the early days of animation,

everybody was making their own version

of a Cinderella cartoon.

This cartoon was brought to us

by the Fleischer brothers and stars

one of their most popular characters.

No, not Superman.

This was years before Superman.

This cartoon stars Betty Boop as Cinderella

and is one of her only cartoons which were in color.

Something I love about the Fleischer cartoons

is how they tried making scenes in their movies look 3D,

something which Disney and other animation companies

would later try to copy.

Now here's Betty Boop starring in (sighs) "Poor Cinderella."

(dramatic music)

(gentle music) (singers humming)

(dramatic fanfare music)

(trumpet fanfare music)

♪ I'm just a poor Cinderella ♪

♪ Nobody loves me, it seems ♪

♪ And like a poor Cinderella ♪

♪ I find my romance in dreams ♪

♪ For that's where I meet my Prince Charming ♪

♪ When I'm with him, cares fade away ♪

♪ I'm just a poor Cinderella ♪

♪ But I'll be a princess someday ♪

[Step Sister] Cinderella!

(dramatic music)

Cinderella!

(dramatic music continues)

Get us ready for the ball.

Hurry up, give my hair a brushing.

Can't you see that we are rushing?

Hurry up, go get my bustle.

You're too slow. Why don't you hustle?

(brush scraping) (tense music descending)

(washboard scraping) (tense music)

(iron thudding) (tense music continues)

(broom scraping)

I hope you enjoy the ball.

(door slams) Oh!

(gentle music)

♪ Nobody loves me (crying) ♪

(gentle music continues)

Cinderella.

Oh!

♪ Pretty Cinderella, you're unhappy I can see ♪

♪ I'm your fairy godmother, listen to me ♪

♪ Dry your little eyes ♪

♪ There is no need to cry at all ♪

♪ You're so kind and gentle, you'll go to the ball ♪

Go fetch me a pumpkin, a large one, my dear.

Six mice and two lizards, and bring them right here.

(Betty cooing)

(Betty grunting)

(mice squeak) - Oh, here they are.

(mice squeaking) Oh!

Here they are.

(mice squeaking)

(bright music)

♪ We're the little mice ♪

♪ And we are happy to be free ♪

♪ You could never be half as happy as we ♪

♪ I'm so overjoyed to be with you and this is why ♪

♪ I was almost cut up for punkin pie ♪

(group vocalizing)

(wand zaps)

(suspenseful music)

Oh, my. Oh.

(wand zaps)

(plodding music)

Oh! (wand zaps)

(plodding music) (Betty giggles)

(wand zaps)

(plodding music) (Betty cooing)

(bell dings)

Oh! (giggling)

My lady.

Oh. Ooh!

(door thuds)

Remember, when the clock strikes 12,

you must be home by then,

for should you fail to be in bed,

you'll be in rags again.

Remember. Remember.

Remember. - Oh!

(whip snaps)

(horse hooves clomping)

(gentle music) (horse hooves clomping)

♪ For that's where I meet my Prince Charming ♪

♪ When I'm with him cares fade away ♪

(horse hooves clomping)

♪ They call her poor Cinderella ♪

♪ But I'll be a princess someday ♪

(gentle music) (horse hooves clomping)

(bright orchestral music)

(gentle orchestral music)

(trumpet fanfare music)

Hail, the Prince!

(dramatic drum roll music)

(trumpet fanfare music)

(regal music)

(music stops)

(gasps) Oh, mm!

(guests chattering)

(mallet thuds)

(slide whistle descending)

Oh! (giggles)

(gentle music)

♪ Am I the poor Cinderella ♪

♪ I find my romance in dreams ♪

(singer vocalizing)

(Betty whistling)

(gentle music)

Woo!

(gentle music)

(clock tolling)

Oh, oh, oh! (squeaks)

(clock tolling) (suspenseful music)

(electricity zaps)

(mice squeaking)

(dramatic music)

(guests chattering)

Silence!

Who was that beautiful maiden?

Have you know tongues?

And I, the Prince, do now declare

(cymbal crashes)

whosoever this slipper can wear, my throne will share!

(trumpet fanfare music)

(regal music)

(fanfare music) (Betty giggles)

(crowd cheering)

(bells ringing)

♪ I'm just a poor Cinderella ♪

♪ Nobody loves me it seems ♪

♪ And like a poor Cinderella ♪

♪ I find my romance in dreams ♪

♪ For that's where I met my Prince Charming ♪

♪ When I'm with you cares fade away ♪

♪ I'm just a poor Cinderella ♪

♪ But I'll be a princess someday ♪

(horse hooves clomping) (cans clattering)

Now you see, it's all your fault.

My fault? Why, you impudent thing.

Oh shut up, you jerk. Oh!

How dare you. For two pennies I'd slap your face.

Oh you would, would you?

Yes, I will. What are you gonna do about it?

(both shouting in high-pitched gibberish)

(both scream)

(gentle music)

Ub Iwerks was an animator who became famous

for his many years working with Walt Disney.

He helped co-create Mickey Mouse

and animate many of Disney's early cartoons.

In 1930, Ub Iwerks left Disney

and started his own animation company.

This next cartoon is one of his best, called "Balloon Land."

It features a world where everything is made of balloons.

It even features balloon versions

of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin.

(playful music)

"Balloon Land" has been featured

in many TV and film productions over the years,

including "PeeWee's Playhouse," and it's considered to be

one of the top 50 greatest cartoons ever made.

Take a look.

(tense music)

(suspenseful music)

(tense music)

(suspenseful music)

(tense music)

(pig snorts)

(duck quacks)

(bird chirps)

(dog barks)

(group vocalizing)

(bright music) (tree grunting)

(bright music continues) (press thudding)

Beware of pins.

(air screeching)

♪ Now beware, have a care ♪

♪ You're just filled with air ♪

♪ A single pin would rip your skin ♪

♪ And the Pin Cushion Man in the forest there ♪

♪ Would pop you both if you don't take care ♪

♪ Oh, such trash ♪

♪ In a flash I will settle his hash ♪

♪ I'll bust right in and twist his chin ♪

♪ I'll get rough, I'll get tough ♪

♪ I'll just call his bluff ♪

♪ Oh no, oh no ♪

♪ Please, oh please, don't go ♪

Aw, come on.

I'm coming.

(playful music)

(soft suspenseful music)

(balloon whimpers and thuds)

I'm scared.

I'm not. Much.

(both cry out)

(balloon pops) (air hisses)

(Pin Cushion Man laughs)

I'm the old Pin Cushion Man, terror of Balloony Land.

Folks all hate me, how they hate me.

Tickles me the way they rate me.

Always have a pin at hand.

(balloon pops) (air hisses)

That's the reason I am panned.

How I stop 'em when I pop 'em?

(Pin Cushion Man laughing) (balloons popping)

(gentle music)

Aw, that Pin Cushion Man's a fake.

I'm not afraid of his pins.

(plodding music)

(Pin Cushion Man laughs)

So you're not afraid of pins?

(Pin Cushion Man laughing)

(suspenseful music)

(balloons popping)

(Pin Cushion Man laughing)

(dramatic music)

(Pin Cushion Man roars) (fists pounding)

Let me in!

(fists pounding)

Let me in! I'll get mad in a minute!

(fists pounding)

Open the gates! I wanna come in!

(chuckles) I'd better not.

The folks'd blow up if I let you in.

Nonsense. I'm your friend.

I want to give you something.

Oh, that's different.

(suspenseful music)

What are you going to give me?

This!

You- (balloon pops)

(Pin Cushion Man cackles)

[Both] The Pin Cushion Man!

Quick, we must sound the alarm.

(babies cooing and sucking)

(mouths pop) (babies wailing)

(dramatic music) (babies wailing)

(dramatic music continues)

(Pin Cushion Man screeches)

(dramatic music continues)

(air hissing)

(door thuds) (Pin Cushion Man grumbles)

(dramatic music continues)

(balloon pops) (balloon whimpers)

(Pin Cushion Man chuckling) (dramatic music continues)

(ballon laughs) (balloon pops)

(dramatic music continues) (balloons popping)

(balloon yawns) (balloon pops)

(dramatic music continues) (pins whooshing)

(dramatic music continues)

[Both] The Pin Cushion Man!

Holy smoke!

(mustache squeaks)

(balloon speaking gibberish)

(warbling trumpet music)

(balloon wheezing)

(upbeat music)

(Pin Cushion Man chuckles)

(upbeat music continues) (pins whooshing)

(Pin Cushion Man cackling) (balloons popping)

(upbeat music continues) (buckets thudding)

Ready, aim, fire!

(dramatic music)

Arm tacks!

(dramatic music continues) (tacks thudding)

(tacks clanking)

(dramatic music continues)

(dramatic music)

Fire!

(catapult creaks)

(dramatic music continues) (ammunition thudding)

(dramatic music continues)

(Pin Cushion Man crashes and cries out)

(Pin Cushion Man squeaks and groans)

(upbeat music)

(playful music descending)

(dramatic music)

And now our second Superman cartoon.

In this cartoon there's been a murder at Metropolis Museum.

When Clark Kent goes to investigate,

he finds out the mummies have come back to life.

Gee, a movie about mummies coming back to life.

It seems like this is a story

I've seen a lot in movies lately,

except this cartoon came out in 1943.

Here now is Superman in "The Mummy Strikes."

(dramatic music)

[Narrator] Faster than a streak of lightning.

(lightning cracks)

More powerful than a pounding surf.

(waves crashing)

Mightier than a roaring hurricane.

(wind howling)

This amazing stranger from the planet Krypton,

the Man of Steel,

(gong booms)

Superman!

Possessing remarkable physical strength,

Superman fights a never-ending battle

for truth and justice,

disguised as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, Clark Kent.

(bright music)

(flames hissing)

(mysterious music)

(dramatic music)

Dr. Jordan. Dr. Jordan!

(dramatic music)

(suspenseful music)

[Lawyer] You deny poisoning Dr. Jordan,

yet you admit these fingerprints are yours.

Yes, but, but you don't-

- [Lawyer] That's all.

(suspenseful music)

(dramatic music)

(phone ringing)

Kent speaking.

[Dr. Wilson] Hello, "Daily Planet"?

This is Dr. Wilson of the Egyptian Museum.

I've just uncovered something that may free Miss Hogan.

Yes, Doctor, I've been feeling much better lately,

but I'll be right over.

I'll see ya later, Lois. Doctor's orders.

(door thuds)

Doctor, my eye.

(suspenseful music)

Dr. Jordan was the world's foremost student

of hieroglyphics.

Most of our priceless specimens were brought back by him,

even the mummy of King Tush.

Among his possessions,

I uncovered this ancient Egyptian tablet

and find it to be a secret curse of the tomb of King Tush.

"He who disturbs the eternal sleep

of King Tush shall perish."

This tablet may well be Miss Hogan's passport to freedom.

Come with me, please.

(suspenseful music)

(ominous music)

Over 3,000 years ago, the Valley of the Upper Nile

was ruled by an old and powerful king.

He had been warring with the Lower Nile for many years,

and just before the old king died,

he called his son to him, a young boy of 12.

He commanded his giant guards swear an oath

of eternal allegiance to the boy prince,

to guard him constantly in this world and the next.

Shortly after, the old king died.

A youth of 12 now ruled a kingdom of 10 million people.

But the boy was not fashioned for such responsibility,

and being of a sickly nature, soon became ill himself.

Never was a person attended more faithfully than this youth,

yet he withered away and soon died.

True to their oath of allegiance,

each of the royal guards drank poison

so that they might continue to protect the spirit

of their young king in the Valley of the Dead.

(tense music)

Here in these catacombs,

Dr. Jordan has reconstructed the burial vault

exactly as he first discovered it in one of the pyramids.

Working for years in absolute and frenzied secrecy,

he finally duplicated an ancient mystic formula,

which he called the Fluid of Life.

(dramatic music)

Just before he was found dead,

Dr. Jordan had inoculated each of the mummies

of the giant guards.

They were supposed to return to life,

but somehow the test failed.

(soft ominous music)

Dr. Jordan was found here at the feet of King Tush.

The rest you know.

But what you don't know, Mr. Kent,

and what I am equally certain of,

is that Dr. Jordan violated the ancient warning

by attempting to open the coffin of King Tush!

(suspenseful music)

(dramatic music)

A poisonous needle. (lid creaking)

That's how Dr. Jordan was killed.

Yes, and Miss Hogan is a free woman.

(tense music)

(lid creaking)

(Lois screams)

Lois!

(suspenseful music)

(dramatic music)

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(sarcophagus thuds)

(suspenseful music)

(stone crashing) (dramatic music continues)

(suspenseful music)

(stone crashing)

(suspenseful music continues)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(stone crashing)

(dramatic music)

(stone crashing)

(dramatic music) (typewriter clacking)

"Jane Hogan Set Free."

(chuckles) This is one time I've scooped you, Lois.

Yes, lucky for you I was hurt.

Incidentally, who told you I was at the museum?

My mummy done told me.

(dramatic music)

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Our final cartoon today is again brought to us

by the Fleischer brothers

and stars one of their most popular characters,

Popeye the Sailor Man.

This was actually Popeye's first color cartoon

and was nominated for best short subject

in the 1936 Academy Awards.

It was voted number 17

in the 50 greatest cartoons of all time,

and some say it served as inspiration

for future Sinbad movies and just pirate movies in general.

Here now is "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor."

Yuck, uck, uck, uck, uck, uck.

(dramatic music)

(wind whistling) (waves lapping)

(snakes rattling) (mysterious music)

(animals roaring)

(dragon screeches)

(animals grumbling)

(monkey screeching) (lion roaring)

(lions grunting)

(grumbling) Be quiet.

You, too.

♪ I'm Sinbad the Sailor so hearty and hale ♪

♪ I live on an island on the back of a whale ♪

♪ It's a whale of an island, that's not a bad joke ♪

♪ Its lord and its master is this handsome bloke ♪

♪ Who's the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow ♪

(lions roar)

♪ Sinbad the Sailor ♪

♪ I scare all creation on land or on sea ♪

♪ But talk about women, they all fall for me ♪

♪ I take my adventures wherever they're found ♪

♪ I don't wanna brag folks, but I've been around ♪

♪ Who's the most phenomenal, extra special kind of fellow ♪

(dragon screeches)

♪ Sinbad the Sailor ♪

♪ From the Valley of Serpents these diamonds I took ♪

♪ I clean out those serpents with one dirty look ♪

(dramatic music) (Sinbad chuckles)

Hmm, serpents.

(upbeat music)

(creature groans)

♪ Oh, look at this monster so strong and so huge ♪

♪ He'd frighten King Kong but he's only my stooge ♪

♪ The capture of boola for me was just fun ♪

♪ Whoever said two heads were better than one ♪

(Sinbad chuckles)

(creature grunting) (Sinbad laughing)

(creature cries out)

♪ Who's the most phenomenal, extraordinary fellow ♪

You's, Sinlouse the Sailor. (whimpering)

(Sinbad grumbling)

(upbeat music) - How do you like that?

Stooge!

(both grumbling in foreign language)

♪ On one of my travels I ran into this ♪

♪ Now there was a thrill I'd be sorry to miss ♪

(bird squawks)

♪ He spread out his wings and the sunlight grew dim ♪

♪ He took me in his beak, but I ran off with him ♪

♪ Who's the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow ♪

(birds squawks)

♪ Sinbad the Sailor ♪

♪ Who's the most phenomenal, extra special kind of fellow ♪

(serpent screeches)

♪ Sinbad the Sailor ♪

♪ I'm afraid of nobody under the sun ♪

♪ All I say is boo and my enemies run ♪

♪ Who's the most remarkable extraordinary fellow ♪

♪ It's Popeye the Sailor Man, ah ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Popeye the Sailor Man ♪

(pipe toots)

♪ I'm strong to the finish 'cause I eats me spinach ♪

♪ I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, ah ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ I'm one tough gazookas which hates all palookas ♪

♪ What ain't on the up and square ♪

♪ I biffs and I buffs 'em ♪

♪ And always out-roughs 'em ♪

♪ But none of them gets nowhere ♪

♪ If anyone dasses to risk me fist ♪

♪ It's bop and its wham, understand ♪

♪ So keep good behavior ♪

♪ That's your one lifesaver ♪

♪ With Popeye the Sailor Man ♪

♪ I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, ah ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Popeye the Sailor Man ♪

♪ I'm strong to the finish 'cause I eats me spinach ♪

♪ I'm Popeye this white whaler man ♪

(pipe toots)

Who fouls the air with a note so sour

and dares to challenge Sinbad's power?

(telescope pieces thudding) (Sinbad grunting)

Why, I'll fix him.

(Sinbad whistles)

(bird squawks) (dramatic music)

Wreck that ship!

(playful music)

(bird squawks)

But bring me the woman.

(Sinbad chuckles) (bird giggles)

Go.

(soft suspenseful music)

(propellers whirring)

(bird thudding and squawking)

(soft suspenseful music) (propellors whirring)

(bird thudding and squawking)

(suspenseful music) (propellors whirring)

(wind whooshing)

(Sinbad chuckles)

(dramatic music) (wind whistling)

(bird squawks)

(wind whistling) (dramatic music continues)

(birds squawks)

(wind whistling) (soft suspenseful music)

(wings thudding)

Oh! Oh!

Well, what happened?

Oh! (screams)

Oh, (stammers) help!

(stammers) Popeye!

Oh, let me go, let me go!

Let me go! No, no, no, don't let me go.

Oh, man the lifeboats.

(water sloshes)

Well, that was a nice ship we had once.

Hey, did you see the same thing I saw?

I've gotta take another look at that thing,

see what that was.

(pipe toots)

That's the biggest buzzard I ever saw.

Look at the fellow go. Woo!

- Oh, oh! Oh! (Olive Oil thuds)

Where am I?

Hello there, beautiful.

Let me see this.

Hey, keep away from me, you!

Stop that. Let me alone. - Come on, honey.

- Ah, don't do that! (feet thudding)

I'll punch your face right! Ah, stop!

- Come here. - I won't.

Get up, sugar, and give us a little smack.

I'll you a smack all right, all right. There!

Hey, we gotta save Olive Oil.

Come on, Wimpy, hurry up before it's too late.

Into the drink.

(water sloshing)

(Popeye vocalizing)

End of the line. Everybody off.

Oh, what's this?

(soft tense music)

"The Isle of Sinbad. Enter Not!

For whosever passeth in, passeth out! Sinbad."

Is that so?

Somebody probably tryin' to be funny around here.

(duck quacks)

Oh! Luncheon.

(duck quacks)

(meat grinder clicking) (playful music)

(duck quacks) (meat grinder clicking)

(playful music continues)

Well, here I go within-eth.

(wind whistling) Ooh.

I don't like this place at all.

(wind whistling)

Sorry I ever came in here.

Looks kinda spooky to me around here.

What's this?

(lions roar) (hat whistles)

Whoa. Oh yeah?

(lions roar) (hat whistles)

Oh!

Trying to scare me off, huh?

(Popeye roars) (lions whimper)

(lions grumble)

Will ya watch them dumb animals

tryin' to scare me like that?

[Olive Oil] Help! Popeye!

- Oh! - Save me! (screams)

- Oh, I'm comin', Olive. - Help!

I just got a little wall here.

(stone crunching)

Oh.

(mysterious music)

Do I hear footprints about here?

Oh!

(stones clattering) (feet tapping)

[Olive Oil] Oh. Oh, I wanna stop!

I wanna stop this dancing! (mysterious music)

Stop!

Huh?

- Oh. Oh, Popeye. - Come back here.

(thuds) Oh.

(Sinbad laughs)

Who invited you?

I did. What are you gonna do about it, huh?

(duck quacking) (meat grinder clicking)

How did you get in here?

(playful music) (meat grinder clicking)

(duck quacking) (meat grinder clicking)

(thuds) Oh!

Fouled again.

Mm. I must resort to my last hamburger. (sighs)

(duck quacks)

Oh! Huh? (hat whistles)

Hey, I wants me girl.

- Oh yeah? - Yeah.

Who are you?

♪ I'm Popeye the Sailor Man ♪

(pipe toots)

Who are you?

Who am I?

- You heard what I said. - Who am I?

- That's what I said. - Why!

(Sinbad grumbles)

♪ Who's the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow ♪

♪ You ♪

(dramatic music) (Popeye chattering)

♪ Who's the most phenomenal, extra special kind of fellow ♪

♪ You ♪

(dramatic music) (Popeye chattering)

♪ I'm afraid of nobody under the sun ♪

♪ All I say is boo and my enemies run ♪

(pipe toots)

♪ Who's the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow ♪

♪ Who ♪

Popeye the Sailor.

You better fix your shirt there,

young fella. - Why. Mm.

- Hey! Hey, put me down. - Well, let's see

how great ya are.

Hey, let down, ya big, oh!

(Popeye whooshes) Whoa!

(bird squawks)

Oh, what's this?

(dramatic music)

Hey, let me down, you big overgrown canary.

What are you doin', takin' me for a ride or somethin'?

(bird squawks)

Hey, let me go, please, then.

I'm not goin' your way.

Come on, let me go. Hey!

Oh. - Oh!

(Sinbad laughing) Popeye!

Popeye, my Popeye!

So long! So long!

Come back to me! (volcano hisses)

(Olive Oil crying) (Sinbad laughing)

(tornado whirring)

(dramatic music)

(Olive Oil laughing) - There ya are, with gravy.

(both laughing) (Sinbad grumbling)

(both laughing)

The uncle says cook this guy, then.

- Laugh, eh? - Hey, let go.

- Well, I'll fix you. - Hey, don't you think

we'd better talk this thing over?

Try and get out of this one!

Oh, my head, my head. (grumbling)

(Popeye whooshes)

(creature grunting) Whoa! Oh!

(creature grumbling)

♪ Comfort to sleep my baby kid ♪

♪ My peaches and cream ♪

- Ow. ♪ My baby kid ♪

♪ If you don't sleep, my baby kid ♪

♪ I close for you your two eyes like this ♪

- Oh. - Yeah.

(Sinbad laughing) - Oh, oh, oh, oh, please.

Oh, oh. (crying)

(teeth clicking) (Sinbad laughing)

Oh my.

[Popeye] Oh, two against one, huh?

(hand smacks) - Whoa!

(hand smacks) Oh!

[Popeye] How do ya like that, huh? Oh.

- What for you like that? Popeye smack our face.

How do you like about that?

You hold up Popeye and beat him.

Bicarbonate, if I had that mug in this hand,

I make from him special dish of (speaking gibberish).

I don't like (speaking gibberish).

I make for you to like it!

(fist thuds)

(fist thuds) (Popeye thuds)

Oh!

Why you two-headed, fat-faced...

I'll fix you.

(Popeye thudding) (creature grunting)

How do ya like that?

(creature grunts)

Oh! (Popeye whooshes)

(tree whistles and thuds)

Ooh!

(slide whistle warbling) (creature grunting)

(footsteps thudding)

Come on, come on,

you're gonna take a doubleheader this time.

Wham!

(creature groans)

(gong reverberates)

Well, I guess I fixed those two fellas.

I won't hear for them anymore. Oh yeah?

(foot thuds)

Who's gonna make who like chicken finger seekaseesee, hmm?

(fists tapping) (Sinbad grumbling)

(Sinbad grunting) (muscles whistling)

There's only room for one great sailor in this world.

That's me. (fists thud)

Oh, says you. (grunts)

(fists pounding)

(military drum music) (Popeye vocalizing)

We're gonna come to terms right now.

(animals chattering)

[Sinbad] Get off of my island.

[Popeye] Oh yeah?

(Sinbad grumbling)

What do you mean your island, huh?

[Sinbad] Oh, you better not toy with me.

- Is that so? - I'll break every bone

in your... - That's too bad, huh?

Hey, what are doing?

- You... - Hey, you can push me

just so far, that's all I gotta say about...

Oh! (Sinbad grumbling)

(pipe toots)

(Popeye groans)

(suspenseful music)

(head thuds)

Beet for beet, kiddo. - Hey, why'd you go

and do that? - That's what I gotta...

- Ooh! - Take that.

(Sinbad grumbles) Hey. Ho!

Whoa! (Popeye whooshing)

(Popeye thudding) (dramatic music)

Peekaboo. (fist thuds)

(suspenseful music) (head thuds)

(Sinbad groans)

(fist thuds) I got you!

(bugle call music)

(Popeye laughs)

[Sinbad] Come outta there, you.

Why... (fist thuds)

(Popeye whooshes)

(spring boinging)

(fists thudding)

- Oh. Hey. - Ha ha.

How do you like that, partner, hey?

(objects clattering) Try now.

- Do ya give up? Give up? (Sinbad grumbling)

- Hey, oh, take that. (fists thudding)

What are you, a fresh guy or something?

I'll show you.

(dramatic music)

(fist thuds) Oh!

(suspenseful music)

Up, up, up! Don't leave me now.

(foot thuds) Oh!

(tense music)

Oh. (Sinbad grunts)

(Popeye grunting)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(machines whirring)

(upbeat music)

(feet thudding) (upbeat music continues)

Take that. Ah ga ga ga ga ga.

(upbeat music continues)

How do ya like that?

(Sinbad whooshes and thuds)

(coconut water splashes) (Sinbad thuds)

Oh, get up and fight me.

Give it to him, Popeye!

Give him the twister punch!

Twister punch comin' up.

Hey. (arm whirring)

(fists thudding) Ah, that's what you are.

You're goin' places, young fella.

(Sinbad whooshing)

♪ Who's the most remarkable, extraordinary fella ♪

♪ You ♪

♪ Popeye the Sailor ♪

(upbeat music)

And there you have it, our final cartoon, for today.

It's incredible to look back at these classic cartoons

and realize that movies today are very similar

to and inspired by those cartoons that came 50

or even a hundred years before.

Yeah, yippee!

We thank you for watching

"Greatest Cartoons of the Golden Era, Volume 2,"

and we hope to see you again soon.

(dramatic music)

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