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Popeye is a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman, based on the comic strip and cartoon character Popeye the Sailor. The film was marketed with the tagline "The sailor man with the spinach can!"
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Popeye appeared on a U.S. postage stamp in 1995, but that's nothing special — so did Flash Gordon, Terry & the Pirates, Brenda Starr, and lots of other "Comic Strip Classics". But of all comics and cartoon characters, only Popeye is the subject of not one but two statues. Likenesses of the spinach-eating sailor stand in Chester, IL (Segar's home town) and Crystal City, TX (which calls itself the spinach capital of the world).
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Despite his 75th birthday this year, Popeye, one of the most popular cartoon and comic book characters of all time, is rarely seen in North America these days. The reason for this is not the lack of public interest, but an extremely complicated corporate politics.
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Popeye the Sailor is a comic strip character featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Segar and first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theater on January 17, 1929. Popeye quickly became the main focus of the strip, which was one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930's and remains one of the longest running strips in syndication today.
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For a medium initially starving for content, Popeye cartoons (along with The Little Rascals which were released to TV a year earlier) provided the hook to get kids to watch local programming. Friends and relatives tuned in to see the little ones on TV, increasing badly needed ratings. How many television sets were sold because of this strategy one can only guess.
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For the first few cartoons, the opening-credits music consisted of an instrumental of "The Sailor's Hornpipe," followed by a vocal variation on "Strike Up the Band (Here Comes a Sailor)," substituting the words "for Popeye the Sailor" in the latter phrase. As Betty Boop would gradually decline in quality as a result of the Hays Code being enforced in 1934, Popeye would become the studio's star character by 1936.
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