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For Sale on eBay: Popeye meets Ali Baba on 16mm!

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Film-POPEYE-MEETS-ALI-BABA-Popeye-1937-Cartoon-Mylar-Color-Stock-NEAR-MINT/154160519134?hash=item23e4aed7de:g:ZaAAAOSwTKxfjfbw

There’s currently a listing on eBay for a 16mm print of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves. But it’s not just any ordinary print, it’s a original print that includes a different Paramount logo/original music for the short instead of the one featured on the DVD!

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I’ve come to the realization that this print is probably the same as this. Would’ve though that the music would be uncut.

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So we have this print which looks the same as the eBay listing. Then there’s a remastered version which has the same opening music as the Archive link but with the Abu Hassan melody looped. We also have the AAP print which is different from the other two.

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December 21, 2007

MoMA Screens Animation in Jan.

The Dave Fleischer-directed Popeye cartoons have been recently restored by the museum with funding from the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund.

The lineup will feature
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves (1937)
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939)


THUNDERBEAN BD 2020
Popeye Meets Sindbad. It’s from a lovely (and well-loved) 35mm Nitrate/ IB Technicolor print.
& Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves.

THUNDERBEAN DVD 2005
Including all three of the extra-length color “specials”

Each of these cartoons have been digitally remastered from original 35mm material and digitally restored to their original brilliance.