Bridge Ahoy!
Fed up with Bluto's greed with his expensive river ferry service, Popeye, Olive and Wimpy decide to undermine the bully by building a bridge instead. Bluto becomes enraged and starts to wreck the structure.
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"Bluto runs the ferry across the river, but he charges too much. So Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Wimpy start building a bridge. Bluto is not going to let things go on without his interfering in this pretty good episode in the Fleischer's long-running cartoon series. The rate of gags is pretty swift here, and the animation techniques are top-notch for the era. The gag that Popeye and Bluto can pretty much dismantle the bridge bare-handed is a bit startling, especially once we see it assembled with cars racing across is. But it's all in good, clean if violent fun. Although Dave Fleischer is..."
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This cartoon makes use of Dave Fleischer's Tabletop process, which animates the cels vertically between multi-plane set pieces in order to create the feeling of depth. Seen here when Bluto is chasing Oliver on the top of the metal rafters. The whole effect is lost in the color version, as the background is a flat redraw.
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Fed up with Bluto's greed with his expensive river ferry service, Popeye, Olive and Wimpy decide to undermine the bully by building a bridge instead. Bluto becomes enraged and starts to wreck the structure.