BCDB: Cartoon Reviews: A Dream Walking

Did you know that Warner cartoon directors Bob McKimson & Chuck Jones both thought the Fleischer Popeyes were awful?
Some guys just don't know what "funny" REALLY IS!!!

This cartoon is a favarite of many Popeye fans, and must be included in any top ten listing of the Sailor's adventures. The cartoons takes place at night time, where Olive is a sleepwalker. She wakes Popeye and Bluto and walks the flagpole outside her window across the tops of the buildings until she is seen walking on a telephone wire. She ends up on a building under construction which has hamburger munching Wimpy as the night watchman. There is so much to see in this cartoon it is impossible to take it all in on one viewing. Highlights are when all three charactors are "sleepwalking" they reach a point on the girders of the building when it appears they are going to colide into one another. This bit of amination is amazing and beautifuly choriographed. The best part of the cartoon is the now classic scene of Olive walking from one girder to the next. This shows the Fleischer animators at their zenith. The entire cartoon is timed to the theme song "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking" from the Paramount feature "Sitting Pretty. A must see cartoon, even the colorized version is worth a look see.