SilverWook said:
... the colorized Fleischer Bros. era Popeye's were done in a non digital way as well. They couldn't deal with the intricate "live" three dimensional backgrounds some of the shorts had at all. ... they were real abominations.

Leonardo said:

Yes, if I do recall correctly, those were sent to Japan and they just retraced and colored some of the animation. That's why they look kinda choppy.

That's one of the things I came across looking for my remembered stencil colorizing technique:

THE STRAIGHT DOPE - Cartoons: Max Fleischer vs Walt Disney
Originally Posted by mobo85:

Originally Posted by CalMeacham:

Much later on, some company redrew the Betty Boops and had them done with colored cels out in the orient somewhere. (the VHS box says "electronically colored", but you can't fool me -- and I heard about it elsewhere).

The Popeye cartoons were redone in the same way as well, as were some black-and-white Looney Tunes. Instead of colorizing the old cartoons, they actually had foreign animators redraw the entire cartoon by hand, thus causing a lot of errors, and also depriving viewers of seeing the patented Fleicher live-action background process. The Looney Tunes were later re-colorized by using a computer to colorize the actual black-and-white original, but the redrawn Popeyes stayed on TV for at least a decade after.