Seasin's Greetinks!

Seasin's Greetinks!
Seasin's Greetinks!
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	William "Billy" Costello; Bonnie Poe; William Pennell
Animation by	Seymour Kneitel; Roland Crandall
Color process	Black-and-white
Production; company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 17, 1933 (U.S.);
Running time	5:55
Country	United States
Language	English

Seasin's Greetinks! is a Popeye theatrical Christmas-themed cartoon short, starring William "Billy" Costello as Popeye and Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl and William Pennell as Bluto. It was released on December 17, 1933^[1]^[2] and is in the Popeye the Sailor series of theatrical cartoons released by Paramount Pictures.^[3]

Seasin's Greetinks! is the fourth Popeye cartoon, and it is also part of one of the few Popeye Christmas and New Year cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures for King Features Entertainment. Others include Let's Celebrake (1938 theatrical short, produced by Fleischer Studios), Mister and Mistletoe (1955 theatrical short) and Spinach Greetings (1961 Popeye episode), both produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios.^[4]

Plot

Popeye gives Olive a pair of ice skates as a Christmas present and teaches her how to skate, but Bluto interrupts the lesson to show how his affection to her, but she gives him the cold shoulder. He starts to cut the ice and she floats on the broken pieces on the running river and calls Popeye for help. As Bluto keeps punching Popeye to keep him from saving her, Olive sees a waterfall and calls for help again. Popeye punches Bluto in and out of the water in an ice cube and sends him to the ice box in the nearest town. He rushes to save Olive, but soon falls down the waterfall and climbs back to save her. As he revives her, Bluto rolls a big snowball to destroy them, but his plan backfires and he rolls down the hill with it. Popeye uses his spinach, hits the snow out of Bluto to make it fall, hits him again, and stars appear out of him which decorate a Christmas tree. Popeye says "Season's Greetings to you all!" and the screen fades to black.

References

^ Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: a History of American Animated Cartoons. Von Hoffmann Press, Inc., 1980. p. 361
^ Calma, Gordon; Calma, Nenad. "Fleischer Popeye Tribute: Episodes". calmapro.com. Archived from the original on March 2, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 122–123. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 244–245. ISBN 9781476672939.