After a short live action performance by the Royal Samoans, Bimbo appears on screen playing a ukelele while riding in a motorboat…containing a topless (except for a strategically placed lei) and dark-skinned Betty Boop.
Popeye takes nephews to the Nautical Museum and tells them a story about how he “knocked the tar out” of Sinbad, the greatest sailor in the world. Animation by Tom Johnson and William Henning. Music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1952.
A variation on the story of Hansel and Gretel, their pet duck and a villanous miser. The second in the Fleischer Studios Color Classics cartoon series, and an attempt to keep up with Disney’s cartoons…
After running out of gas in hillbilly country, Betty Boop seeks help from the locals, but ends up being held at gunpoint. She proves her identity as a dancer by putting on a demonstration; the hillbillies join in with their genuine bluegrass stylings. Won over, the rustics give Betty a jug of good ol’ sour mash to fuel her car.
From The Public Domain Movie Database: Popeye tells his four nephews the story of his great Uncle Hercules in order to get them to eat spinach.
