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Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
1937
The classic Arabian adventure, adapted for Popeye and Olive Oyl. Cartoon originally produced in 1937 by Fleischer Studios, now in the public domain
A RUN IN WITH A PSYCHOPATH by Mark Antony Raines
It is often said that you never truly know the person you're living with and what dark secret of a skeleton they may have in the closet.
I met my wife via a loving for love advert in the bikers magazine Back Street Heroes we talked for hours over the phone and then met up and clicked together also immediately then a few months got married.
It was a great marriage but every full moon I noticed my wife would book herself in a remote hotel in the mountains of Scotland and I would not see her for a couple of weeks.
I often asked why but she just said it was for the best as she did not me to see that side to her:this made me feel a little strange and I have to admit a bit jealous of not knowing what she was up to and perhaps I had a touch of the green eyed monster.
So when the next full moon was due let her see me wave goodbye and after a few minutes I got on my motorbike and followed her like some spy film to the hotel in the mountains of Scotland.
When I approached the hotel i realise it was an amazing asylum by the sign on the wall
"Meshugger Asylum for the maniac screwball s owned by Shizo Fruitcake "
So I went up to the reception and was greeted by a lady who would have given Frankinstern a run for his money.
"Excuse me i believe my wife Enid has booked a room with you for the week as a walk in patient "
"Sorry all clients information is classified I going to ask you to leave "
At this point a couple burly man looking like a cross between a wrestler and a strongman came out of a room, walked up beside me, lifted me up and placed me outside the door and both grunted caveman-like..
"Don't come back "
I leave with my tail between my legs then as the moon rises in hear a howl which I thought sounded like a wolf but surely the wolves in England were in zoo s not its countryside .
So I run around the back of the asylum and found that the back door was wide open and I sneaked in keeping my movements cat like and keep my ears tuned to the howling ignoring the sounds coming from the other rooms that had jail like bars.
Finally he was standing outside of the door which one it said
"Inside resides person suffering from chronic mental mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviour "
The howling stops a wail of crying replaces it is tap on the door and cry out Enid s name.
Enid replys
"Mark darling what are you doing here I told you I never wanted to see or hear me like this "
I replied
"My darling Enid do you not wish me to honour our wedding vows to be together in sickness and health"
"Well if you insist but don't be afraid I won't bite "
With that in open the door and in front of me stood my wife completely covered head to toe in wolf's fur and half woman half wolf body along with a wagging tail.
I smiled and said dispite her outside appearance she was beautiful in the inside and next time she was to say at home with me..
As the fairytale s ending always say we lived happily ever after?
A Princess of Mars information about the book by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars
A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from February–July, 1912. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Barsoom series inspired a number of well-known 20th-century science fiction writers, including Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and John Norman. The series was also inspirational for many scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan, who read A Princess of Mars when he was a child.
More information -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars
Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher
Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher
1932
Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.[1]
The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of "St. James Infirmary". Then Betty Boop gets into a fight with her strict, Yiddish speaking, Jewish parents, runs away from home with her boyfriend Bimbo, and sings excerpts of the Harry Von Tilzer song "They Always Pick on Me" (1911) and the song "Mean to Me" (1929).
Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway's voice, sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. Calloway is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother cat with empty eye-sockets feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on. Betty and Bimbo both change their minds about running away and rush back home with every ghost right behind them. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving "Home Sweet Home" on it. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues".
Underlying Work: PD U.S. | Digital Copy: No Additional Rights
Woody Woodpecker in Pantry Panic
Woody Woodpecker in Pantry Panic
1941
Weatherby Groundhog predicts a cold winter and advises all the birds to fly south. But Woody Woodpecker decides to stay, and nearly starves. Animation by Alex Lovy and Lester Kline, story by Ben Hardaway and L.E. Elliott, music by Darrell Calker.
Pantry Panic is the third animated cartoon short in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 24, 1941, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Woody stays behind to swim while the other birds in the forest migrate south for the winter. Just after the other birds leave, the cold of winter sets in instantly, to the point that Woody's swimming hole freezes solid after he jumps in ("Must be hard water", he remarks). Woody does not worry, because he has stored up plenty of food. However, a snow storm enters his house and makes off with all of his possessions, food included.
Two weeks later, Woody is delusional and literally staring starvation, personified as something vaguely resembling the Grim Reaper, in the face. A month later, a hungry cat happens upon Woody's cabin, breaks the 4th wall, and conspires to eat the woodpecker. The famished Woody, however, plans just as quickly to eat the cat, and the two have at it. Eventually a moose appears at Woody's open door, and the starving cat and woodpecker chase after it to capture and eat it. Afterwards, however, the meal proves not to be enough to satisfy both Woody (whose voice is suddenly much different) and the cat, who instantly resume their game of trying to eat each other.
Voices
Danny Webb was the voice of Woody Woodpecker; the Cat and the Moose, and bird voices were likely done by Sara Berner, Bernice Hansen, Jack Mercer, Pinto Colvig, and Mel Blanc.[citation needed]
Production notes
Like most of the early 1940s Lantz cartoons, Pantry Panic carried no director's credit. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon, which features animation by Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding, a story by Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott, and music by Darrell Calker. This is also the only Woody Woodpecker cartoon (not counting Knock Knock) in which Woody's iconic laugh is not present in the opening credits before the short starts.
Pantry Panic was the third cartoon in the Woody Woodpecker series, featuring an early, garish Woody Woodpecker design. It was the first short with Danny Webb as Woody's voice. However, the woodpecker's famous laugh (provided by Mel Blanc) would continue to be recycled until 1951, when Grace Stafford rerecorded a softer version. Woody's "Guess Who?" (also Blanc), however, would continue to be used until the end of the series in 1972.[1]
Pantry Panic would be reworked in 1946 as Who's Cookin' Who?. The starvation personification would also reappear in the remake as well as 1951's The Redwood Sap. This entry is the only Woody Woodpecker cartoon in the public domain. As such, it is freely distributed, and can be downloaded from the Internet Archive and seen on YouTube.
See also
Woody stays behind to swim while the other birds in the forest migrate south for the winter. Just after the other birds leave, the cold of winter sets in instantly, to the point that Woody's swimming hole freezes solid after he jumps in ("Must be hard water", he remarks). Woody does not worry, because he has stored up plenty of food. However, a snow storm enters his house and makes off with all of his possessions, food included.
Two weeks later, Woody is delusional and literally staring starvation, personified as something vaguely resembling the Grim Reaper, in the face. A month later, a hungry cat happens upon Woody's cabin, breaks the 4th wall, and conspires to eat the woodpecker. The famished Woody, however, plans just as quickly to eat the cat, and the two have at it. Eventually a moose appears at Woody's open door, and the starving cat and woodpecker chase after it to capture and eat it. Afterwards, however, the meal proves not to be enough to satisfy both Woody (whose voice is suddenly much different) and the cat, who instantly resume their game of trying to eat each other.
Voices
Danny Webb was the voice of Woody Woodpecker; the Cat and the Moose, and bird voices were likely done by Sara Berner, Bernice Hansen, Jack Mercer, Pinto Colvig, and Mel Blanc.[citation needed]
Production notes
Like most of the early 1940s Lantz cartoons, Pantry Panic carried no director's credit. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon, which features animation by Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding, a story by Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott, and music by Darrell Calker. This is also the only Woody Woodpecker cartoon (not counting Knock Knock) in which Woody's iconic laugh is not present in the opening credits before the short starts.
Pantry Panic was the third cartoon in the Woody Woodpecker series, featuring an early, garish Woody Woodpecker design. It was the first short with Danny Webb as Woody's voice. However, the woodpecker's famous laugh (provided by Mel Blanc) would continue to be recycled until 1951, when Grace Stafford rerecorded a softer version. Woody's "Guess Who?" (also Blanc), however, would continue to be used until the end of the series in 1972.[1]
Pantry Panic would be reworked in 1946 as Who's Cookin' Who?. The starvation personification would also reappear in the remake as well as 1951's The Redwood Sap. This entry is the only Woody Woodpecker cartoon in the public domain. As such, it is freely distributed, and can be downloaded from the Internet Archive and seen on YouTube.
See also
Popeye for President
Popeye for President
1956
Popeye and Bluto are both running for president. They are tied with exactly the same number of votes, but Miss Olive Oyl has yet to cast her ballot. Which candidate will be able to impress her the most and earn her precious vote?
Popeye for President March 30 Tom Johnson
Frank Endres Robert Connavale Jack Mercer Seymour Kneitel
In the Public Domain in the United States.
Frank Endres Robert Connavale Jack Mercer Seymour Kneitel
In the Public Domain in the United States.
Paramount Pictures
Friday 15 January 2021
THE DEAD BODY by Mark Antony Raines
It was just your average weekend Saturday waiting for my friends to turn up at our usual hang out:a patch of man made Hill across from the top of the main square in my seaside resort of Southend on Sea home once to the world's longest pier until someone in New Zealand built a longer one.
As usual I went inside Mac Donald s for a cheeseburger and chips to eat -as their say on television other food outlets are available .
Finally my friends arrived on the scene ready to rock and roll and strut down the high street as if it was owned by us but this is part of youthful ideas and long forgotten with the ravages of father time.
The rest of the high street just carried on the business of shopping or window shopping and thinking to themselves what a bunch of idiots we looked at.
We reached the promenade and walked down the endless arcades and we visited the odd one to play on the games and the occasional game of chicken with penny machine; which meant running up to said penny machine and bumping it and grabbing as many pennies as possible before the buzzer went off and the arcade assistant run of his kiosk telling us to go way using obscene language.
We got bored of this decision between us whose turn it was to go to Woolworths to steal some sweets as it was easy as long as we brought a quarter and put one in the bag and two in your pocket.
So we go off to do our most favourite thing, some beach combing in search like some watered down pirates seeking our treasure.
As we walk along the stretch of seemingly endless sand to see what Frist I think is a seal so we all decide to get nearer to investigate.
It was not a seal but the body of a young boy who seemed to not be moving or breathing. In fact we all feared the worse we had found a dead body.
I stepped closer to make certain as I did not wish to rise and alarm as it could end us all in trouble.
I got closer I put my ear to his nose,no breathing; I placed my two fingers on his arm to feel a pulse there was none ;I was just to pronounce the young boy was dead when the boy let out an unearthly gruntle sound that shocked me and rooted me to the spot in fear unable to move.
The boy raised his body upright into a sitting position and looked at me with his deadless eyes then opened his mouth to reveal a series of razor sharp teeth and a crimson blood red tongue.
I let out an almighty scream telling my friends to run.
Their in turn let out riotous laughing :and then the boy stood up and said
"April's fool"
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