Now here is my top favorite out of the Technicolor two-reel Popeye featurettes, besides Popeye meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves from 1937.
In this short, Olive works in a movie studio's story department, working out a script based on the Aladdin story. Popeye as Aladdin, herself as the "beautiful" princess, and the baddie in this Popeye toon, who surprisingly is not Bluto, but a mean vazir/sorcerer.
And as she types, her story adaptation comes to life on the screen, showing Aladdin (Popeye), a lowly pauper working in a junk shop, who has his eye on the Princess Olive. The baddie deceives Aladdin into retrieving the magical lamp from a dangerous cave for the Princess. After Aladdin succeeds, the bad guy steals the lamp and traps Aladdin in the cave. In doing so, however, he also clumsily traps the lamp. Aladdin accidentally discovers the powers of the Genie within the lamp, and the fun begins. Aladdin wished to be a wealthy prince so he could give money to the poor and impress the princess, so she would agree to marry him. Naturally, she agrees to marry Aladdin; however, he had no idea the vazir notice he had survived, and when Aladdin left the palace to invite his friends to the wedding, he dropped the magic lamp on the balcony by accident. Seeing his chance at stealing the lamp, the vazir disguises himself as a peddler, trading new lamps for old. The princess, thinking the magic lamp is a piece of junk, sends a servant woman to trade it for a flashlight. So the vazir got the magic lamp, but his plans are not yet completed.
That is all I could tell you. You'll just have to wait and see. Anyway, I loved this beautifully colorful, animated short from beginning to end.
In this short, Olive works in a movie studio's story department, working out a script based on the Aladdin story. Popeye as Aladdin, herself as the "beautiful" princess, and the baddie in this Popeye toon, who surprisingly is not Bluto, but a mean vazir/sorcerer.
And as she types, her story adaptation comes to life on the screen, showing Aladdin (Popeye), a lowly pauper working in a junk shop, who has his eye on the Princess Olive. The baddie deceives Aladdin into retrieving the magical lamp from a dangerous cave for the Princess. After Aladdin succeeds, the bad guy steals the lamp and traps Aladdin in the cave. In doing so, however, he also clumsily traps the lamp. Aladdin accidentally discovers the powers of the Genie within the lamp, and the fun begins. Aladdin wished to be a wealthy prince so he could give money to the poor and impress the princess, so she would agree to marry him. Naturally, she agrees to marry Aladdin; however, he had no idea the vazir notice he had survived, and when Aladdin left the palace to invite his friends to the wedding, he dropped the magic lamp on the balcony by accident. Seeing his chance at stealing the lamp, the vazir disguises himself as a peddler, trading new lamps for old. The princess, thinking the magic lamp is a piece of junk, sends a servant woman to trade it for a flashlight. So the vazir got the magic lamp, but his plans are not yet completed.
That is all I could tell you. You'll just have to wait and see. Anyway, I loved this beautifully colorful, animated short from beginning to end.