hollywood steps out original ending
In the second frame, it looks like Popeye was afraid he was going to be teabagged, As long as we’re on the subject of Famous Popeyes, on Volume 1 on WE’RE ON OUR WAY TO RIO, after the final scene in which Popeye and the Brazilian Olive Oyl change clothes, the picture fades to the Paramount title, Is that the “real” ending to the cartoon. My suspicion would be that it had to be something a little more racy or suggestive. One other imfamous missing scene occurs in “YANKEE DOODLE MOUSE”, involving a book of ration stamps. Popeye has some hose to discard along with his, er… balls. He then throws the barbells offscreen, not at his goons (all four of whom he has just knocked out with a single punch). "The Pest That Came to Dinner", "Pop 'Im Pop!" The timing, taking the barbells out of the dress was probably a little slow and teasing at first, then very abrupt as Popeye quickly takes them out and shoves them into the Pirateâs jaws. Only color cartoons were eligible to be reissued in this program. I believe a snippet of the original ending was found recently. I even once suggested to Jerry that the Warner Brothers cartoon department actually reanimate how they assumed the gag would go upon original fade-out, especially if the sound disks of the original ending actually exist. All the little Tyer tricks, like his use of speed lines as Bluto does all the military saluting and bowing and scraping, and the way he pops the car cels off for one or two frames to accent the tires exploding, looks exceptionally crisp. Hollywood Steps Out (1941) Trivia. To me, it’s obvious that Popeye used a pair of barbells (or cannon balls) as his breasts and tossed them overboard just as Pierre is returning to the deck, about to pounce the Sailor Man. There are three cartoons released after 1948 which have had their original title sequences restored on DVD. As is Tweetie Pie, where they ended up with a copy of the original release soundtrack to Tweetie Pie and proceeded to mate it with the reissue-modified (Blue Ribbon) picture element in at least some TV prints. First of all, I wanted to thank everyone for resolving a question from my childhood, I’m 24, but I’ve grown up with Popeye all my life. Unsourced info can be questioned and may be removed without notice. This was due to those cartoons being billed as Bugs Bunny Specials, a sub-series which Warner Bros. sold to theaters at a higher price. Cartoons 10-12 are in the Sunset Productionspackage. It looks as though Popeye pulls the barbell out and it ends up in Pierre’s mouth!! This was the only cartoon which ended up in the a.a.p. received/used more than one master element to derive TV elements from. To our delight, the cartoons have been beautifully restored, but to our mutual disappointment, Popeye and The Pirates (1947) – which always contained an obvious edit since at least the 1956 A.A.P. Famous Studios ‘Ultra-Violence’ made its way into the Harvey’s ‘Approved by the Comics Code‘ comic books. (If Elliot’s comment on >>this< article a while back is any indication, some of them may also retain the original title music. The original color rings for "All a Bir-r-r-d", "8 Ball Bunny", "Cat-Tails for Two", "Boobs in the Woods", "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", "The Ducksters", "For Scent-imental Reasons", "Fast and Furry-ous", "Daffy Duck Hunt", "Drip-Along Daffy", "Rabbit Hood", "Beep, Beep", "No Barking", "Henhouse Henery", "His Bitter Half", "His Hare Raising Tale", "An Egg Scramble", "Mighty Hunters", "A Kiddies Kitty", "Tabasco Road", "A Peck o' Trouble", "Prince Violent", "The Prize Pest", "Rebel Rabbit", "Rabbit Fire", "The Wearing of the Grin" and "Fowl Weather" are known to exist. Ba-dum-BUM. Hi! We can all use a good laugh these days. The first was Gary Cooper (who is insanely tall) and Shirley Temple (who is insanely short) dancing during the conga sequence. The titles for "A Day at the Zoo", "Of Fox and Hounds", "The Isle of Pingo Pongo", "Don't Look Now", "Wacky Wild Life", "Johny Smith and Poker-Huntas", "Thugs with Dirty Mugs", "A Feud There Was", "The Early Worm Gets the Bird", "Circus Today", "The Mice Will Play", "Fresh Fish", "Cross Country Detours" and "I Only Have Eyes for You" were found on eBay in 2007, but never released on DVD. I thought “Rodeo Romeo” was outstanding, Marty Taras did some of his best stuff on Bluto in this cartoon, and the “Loco Weed” sequence showing an X-Ray of Popeye’s brain disintegrating made me laugh out loud. I found a discussion about 1930s Old Hollywood celebrity caricatures on FaceBook a month ago, and decided to research further. Feel free to submit some of your favorite Famous Studios (or Harvey Comics) ultra violence sequences. Maybe that lost scene in “POPEYE AND THE PIRATES” could actually be realized, especially with any vintage scores that could be found and used on such reimaginings. On the other hand, only five cartoons which WB would keep for their own TV packages (released August 1, 1948 or later) were reissued under the original 1943 rules (the technical credits are removed). The problem is, if these storyboards survive, they’re likely in the hands of a collector, or an action house. I wonder if Bluto’s head appeared on the left screen, Popeye tosses out the cannonballs (which go directly into his mouth) but simultaneously the dress comes off …was there a lingerie/ pantyhose image that was a bit much for theatre audiences? ... as Gable ends up being tranced by a rude awakening. That’s how I’ve always imagined it, anyway. There was one exception to this rule (see "Anomalies" below). They also allowed theaters to book these cartoons separately if they wanted. The Golden Collection series was launched in the aftermath of the success of the Walt Disney Treasures series that itself collected archived Disney material. I saw a scene in “Rocket To Mars” I don’t ever recall seeing before, an “8-Ball Planet” with a Tojo-like face hiding behind it! See more ideas about tv videos, good old movies, temple movie. This is also true of missing titles, like that of “THE GOOD EGG”, an early Warner Brothers cartoon that still retains its full soundtrack, as revealed on the first of the CARL STALLING PROJECT CD’s co-compiled by Greg Ford. Instead, the original technical credits were shown (though the rings (sometimes the closing if it was select shorts from 1959-64) - but not the original opening and closing music - were still replaced). I think that Popeye stuffing the barbells in the Pirate’s mouth was done deliberately, not accidentally. As to the missing scene in Popeye and the Pirates, I think Jerry’s speculative description is very close to the way it was. Cartoons in 1948-49 season had blue background with yellow-orangish rings. On the other hand, I wanted to buy Popeye’s BluRays, but the shipping changes many times and I am not sure that it arrives, I am afraid of losing the opportunity to have some bluray if possible…, I wanted to ask if there is the possibility of obtaining A copy of some disc, I even settle for a chapter like the one described in the post, money is not a problem because I have already tried it officially, I mean I would pay for the copy. "Dangerous Dan McFoo" was the first cartoon to use this. Hollywood Steps Out, 1941 (PC2 transfer) 15. Here are the two successive frames as they appear in the film – the first one “before”, the second one “after”: Do you have a theory on what might have been contained in the cut footage? 1 is the real deal. The 1940 cartoon "The Mighty Hunters" was the one exception to the original rule. Can’t wait until the next Popeye issue to see how the Polacolor shorts will look. However, the latter three were credited Warner Bros. on their first re-release, keeping the first Blue Ribbon re-release closing titles for the second re-release. The HBO Max streaming service has restored the original titles for "The Lady in Red", "When I Yoo Hoo", "Fresh Fish", "The Rattled Rooster", "Two's a Crowd", "Leghorn Swoggled" and "Sleepy Time Possum", although "The Lady in Red" has it's original audio music on the title card recreated as well as the ending, which was most likely plastered from "Billboard Frolics" while "When I Yoo Hoo" still uses the reissue closing titles. Long-Haired Hare(GC Vol. Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG -- Three cels, from left, Edward G. Robinson, Clark Gable and Peter Lorre from "HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT", 1941. The dress is still floating to the right side in the frame of the take- and Popeye’s shoes are already on. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Thank you, GDX, your logic is right on the money. The Brave Little Bat, 1941 (CJ: MC transfer) 16. The determining of cutting the credits to keeping them would determine which cartoons' copyrights were sold to Associated Artists Productions in 1956, though five cartoons that would remain in Warner Bros.' television packages were re-released under the original 1943 rules and one cartoon that was re-released in the 1952-53 animation season kept its original credits, but still replaced the opening and closing bullet titles. The cartoons on the new disc look fantastic! * Hollywood Steps Out * Now That Summer Is Gone * Pop Goes Your Heart * Little Dutch Plate * Love And Curses ... @A-Cecil, have you seen a video with the original end card, all the prints I have seen have the 1939-43 BW ending, rather than the 1937-39 Porky ending? Recently I discovered this page and I am surprised with the professionalism that things are said, thanks again. We’ve seen this notation, however, on other negatives – for example on Blue Ribbon cartoons, when the studio made changes in the picture for theatrical reissue. Hollywood Steps Out (1941 𤩠Hollywood Steps Out is a 1941 short Merrie Melodies cartoon by Warner Bros., directed by Tex Avery. I suspect I’m asking the obvious here, but are there overseas versions of this cartoon somewhere? In all the current prints thereâs a quick fade out after Grouchoâs âwell, fancy meeting you hereâ. The cartoons kept their original closing music, if before "Plenty of Money and You", kept their original closing stock titles. Among the stars that have been so immortalized are: 1 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 2 Fred Allen 3 Gracie Allen 4 Don Ameche 5 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson 6 George Arliss 7 Louis Armstrong 8 Edward Arnold 9 Jean Arthur 10 Fred Astaire 11 Roy Atwell 12 Mischa Auer 13 Artie Auerbach 14 Lauren Bacall 15 Jim ⦠Most of you of course know the story that in the short's original print; the ending was extended. Here are a few fun examples of the “shove something dangerous down your opponents throat” motif they established. These were also edited into the original negative as the titles cut to the credits instead of faded in. The original ending of âHollywood Steps Outâ allegedly had Clark Gable saying âForgive me Carole. Starting with 1949-50, cartoons from Eddie Selzer started to be re-released and the Merrie Melodies kept their original closing rings while the Looney Tunes were replaced with the Blue Ribbon closing. 2) 6. Looney Tunes Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. I have no idea what was cut. Bugs Bunny Rides Again is one example, as brought up in the linked thread. Barbells are for weight training and would have been out of place on a pirate ship.”. But I haven’t seen too many storyboard drawings of Popeye from this era. When the cartoon resumes after the cut, one can briefly see that is what happened, with the Pirate Captain’s mouth and cheeks puffed out, with Popeye doing his “oh, no” take, running, etc. to the tune of a little tooting horn, still makes me laugh every time I see it! Caricatures of celebrities have long appeared in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Despite the truncated ending, the reveal and Gable's reaction still works as a hilarious punchline (it gets me everytime). Afterwards, the title of the cartoon appeared. That said, I think your reconstruction of the gag is probably spot-on. During the time of the cartoon studio's shutdown, the 1953-1954 (#'s 1351-1363) and 1954-1955 (#'s 1364-1377) reissue production number groups ran back to back. With Popeye cartoons having horses ass turn into Hitler’s face I can imagine the same people would came up with such joke…. Popeye must have used barbells for breasts in that deleted scene. I suppose my point is – keep watching the auction sites (most notably Heritage Auctions who scans ridiculously high res scans available for free!)! 327. When I saw that, I canceled the order from Amazon and bought from Barnes and Noble online (package is due tomorrow, 6/25). Don’t have any different thoughts on what happened in the “cut” but thinking that we should not close the door on this. "Kit for Cat" has only the opening restored but with the Blue Ribbon closing rings, although a 1998 "THIS VERSION" print does restore the original closing titles as on the Wideo Wabbit VHS released in Europe. Two pre-1948 shorts' USA and EU 1995 dubbed transfers contain recreated Blue Ribbon titles. Showing all 9 items. 2. Cartoons in the Looney Tunes category originally released in 1942-1948 had all credits cut. Did anyone get a copy? The objects land in his mouth as Popeye turns and notices Pierre has returned (thus explaining Popeye’s surprised “take”). For the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD releases, Warner Bros. went through great lengths to track down whatever elements of the original title credits still exist in an effort to re-create as best they could the original versions of the altered 'blue ribbon' shorts. CARTOON" (or in the earlier years, "Produced by LEON SCHLESINGER") and either "IN TECHNICOLOR" (1943–48), "Color by TECHNICOLOR" (1948–54), "COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR"/"PRINT BY TECHNICOLOR" (both 1954-57, the "PRINT.." variation was used if the cartoon was originally made/released in Cinecolor), or "TECHNICOLOR" (1957–64) being shown on the bottom. As a result, such cartoons as "I Love to Singa" and "Book Revue" once again appear as they were originally intended. As I recall, the original, full ending to “The Heckling Hare” (Avery, 1941) exists in “script” form. The cartoon features caricatures of Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Bing Crosby, Greta Garbo, and Groucho Marx. In the 1943-44 and the first half of the 1944-45 season, the original closing was kept, since all of these re-releases credited Leon Schlesinger. I think that Popeye stuffing the barbells in the Pirateâs mouth was done deliberately, not accidentally. Hi Mark, I’ve still got a VHS recording I captured from WUAB-TV in Cleveland in 1988 when they aired “Rocket To Mars” and the 8-ball scene is intact. The original color rings for "Hot Cross Bunny", "Hare Splitter", "Knights Must Fall" and "Upswept Hare" were restored for the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray set. I got the same “1-3 months” when I tried to place my order. I have several answers – or perhaps theories – for this. Itâs as pretty as a picture. I thought it was a problem with my account so I canceled the order. i’m sure you’re all probably correct. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]. [citation needed|date=]. At that time, I thought the channel did the cutting. The ending scene where Clark Gable finally caught the blonde girl whom he had continually followed was originally longer. These were: "Daffy Dilly", "The Foghorn Leghorn", "Kit for Cat", "Scaredy Cat" and "You Were Never Duckier". The other three are directed by Chuck Jones. There seemed to be no way listed on the site to contact anyone at Amazon. Also, several Blue Ribbon prints have altered titles. The action takes place in the famed Ciro's nightclub, where the Hollywood stars are having dinner at $50 a plate and "easy terms", including Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and Cary Grant. However, the original audio is also required for the short to be present restored on a home video release. The present day cut starts as Popeye reaches down the front of his dress to remove his “bosom”. I enjoyed the Popeye 1940s Volume two disc very much. Greetings from Spain. So the mystery remains. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale. And he had already locked Pierre in a chest and dumped him in the ocean BEFORE starting to remove his disguise. Sketches and photos of the original titles for "Katnip Kollege", "Farm Frolics", "Sioux Me", "Horton Hatches the Egg", "The Fifth-Column Mouse", "Pigs in a Polka", "The Mouse-Merized Cat", "Mouse Menace", "Plenty of Money and You", "The Sneezing Weasel", "Old Glory", "You're an Education", "Along Came Daffy", "The Cagey Canary", "Slightly Daffy" and "An Itch in Time" have surfaced, but their real titles have not been found. Although Aladdin is the one Fleischer two-reeler that had both reinstated on the WHV DVDs.). They are, "The Cat Came Back" (1944 and 1954), "A Feud There Was", (1943 and 1953) "Of Fox and Hounds", (1944 and 1954), "The Fighting 69½th" (1943 and 1953), "The Early Worm Gets the Bird" (1943 and 1952), "Rhapsody in Rivets" (1947 and 1954), "The Trial of Mr. Wolf" (1946 and 1954) and "Old Glory" (1945 and 1953). Either it was simply the shape of the barbells that irked the Hays Office, or possibly that the barbells came encased in a bra that might have gotten the scene cut (or it may have just been that whatever censor who viewed the cartoon on the East Coast was more sensitive/prudish about gags involving fake breasts than the person who reviewed Warners’ effort a year later). [citation needed|date=]. Still it could be the true visual because , Famous did two Raggedy Ann cartoons SUDDENLY IT’S SPRING, & THE ENCHATED SQUARE that do indeed have a direct fade to the Paramount end title. Release date ... Tex attempts his create a "mockumentary" out of the Hollywood nightlife documentaries like the Oscars, etc. Ismael. titles as used on the B&W Fleischer and Famous shorts) would be worth checking out. 1. The cartoon on the new disc is the way it was originally presented. Required fields are marked *. Has anyone bothered to do the archeological dig for the sound elements to missing pieces like this in cartoons? Please add reliable citations to help verify the article's content. 5) 3. A Wild Hare (Academy Awards Animation Collection) 2. Hollywood Steps Out is the first old film I'm featuring in this ephemera blog. The original closing was always kept if re-released between 1956 and 1959, regardless of which series the short was originally in. (I actually checked my print this morning!) The Looney Tunes Golden Collection was an annual series of six1 four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Brothers' Home video unit Warner Home Video, each containing about 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts. He still needed to take off the dress- and Pirate Bluto had just disappeared offscreen. Your email address will not be published. prints of the color Famous shorts I’ve heard about (with the same A.A.P. (If not you can order it here). But if someone could start digging for information on this particular shorts original production information such as animators draft etc then perhaps we could finally get some light on what was cut. ⦠What a place! There were four exceptions to the rule. "Canary Row", "Home Tweet Home" and "Canned Feud" restore the original opening on the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection DVD sets. The website's critics consensus states: "Although Hollywood Ending contains some zany one-liners, its promising premise is far from developed." I bet it was too funny for the censors. But there’s another master where the opening A.A.P. Cartoons reissued that were originally released from September 1944-1951 in the Merrie Melodies category kept their original closings as they were produced by Eddie Selzer and reissued during his career (for example, "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" was released in 1944 of September (the first cartoon produced by Selzer). Regarding Steve’s reply: Something to bear in mind here is that this wouldn’t be the only instance of A.A.P. Cinecolor rings in the 1947-48 season were red background with yellow-greenish rings. You might ask: How could they release a film with such an obvious edit? Tell me what you know. The screen darkned upon the viewing of the titles for the 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons, but after that remained normal. Audience Reviews for Hollywood Ending Aug 12, 2013 Since the 1970s, Woody Allen has been pretty consistent with his filmmaking output, trying his best to release at least one film a year. And this was not the last pirate ship picture for Paramount. In addition to "A Feud There Was", instead of re-releasing other shorts into the Blue Ribbon program, eight other Blue Ribbon shorts have been re-released twice, scrapping the first re-release titles. Cartoons in Cinecolor had different rings than Technicolor. However, only a handful of cartoons that were reissued prior to the 1956-57 season have their original technical credits restored. It wasn’t common, but there are many many examples of that. They were ephemeral – not expected to ever be seen again after their initial showings. And yes, I would imagine that the Hays Office archives might have something, though I don’t know if/where they exist. It just goes to show how arbitrary and capricious cartoon censorship has been (and still is). Guess that is why we love and care about these film classics. One Popeye-ular myth about the early Famous era that circled around for many years was that in 1945 and ’46 while Jack Mercer was temporarily in the military, was that Mae Questel substituted as Popeye’s voice for SIX or even SEVEN cartoons straight. I think you mean cannon balls, not “barbells”. Starting in the 1954-55 animation series, Merrie Melodies originally produced in Cinecolor had their closings replaced. 2 blu-ray and DVD. Rooster!" Can’t wait for Volume 3 to see how the Polacolor ones look. In addition, most Blue Ribbon prints of the short, usually through the American and European 1995 Turner prints, appear on television packages throughout the world. There were five sets made, featuring a number of discs (five discs in Volumes 1 to 4, four discs in Volume 5), and each disc side represented a different theme, being made up of seven cartoons per side. Remember, these cartoons were essentially screened for movie patrons once. (*) - The original opening sequence has been restored Cartoons 1-2, 6-8, 13, and 17 are in the a.a.p. Additionally, general audiences were used to seeing spliced prints of cartoons, shorts and features back in the day – especially at second and third run theaters. Cartoons reissued that were originally released from 1937-1940 kept the original closing music, but rings and titles were replaced.