Caveman Capers
- Studio
- Larry Harmon Studios
- Distributor
- King Features Syndicate
Synopsis
Popeye wants to return to the time of cavemen, when men were men. Olive Oyl agrees, because she knows how the cavewomen treated their men. Popeye tells Olive the tale of how his family came to love spinach. The story is a flashback to caveman days and involves ancestors of Popeye and Brutus fighting over cavewoman Olive. "Prehysterical" Popeye woos his Olive with a club, fights and conquers Brutus, and even battles "dinasewers" to rescue her. He tries "spinach" because dinosaurs grew big eating it. Modern Olive likes club-technique romance. She smacks Popeye and drags him off.
Characters
Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Paul Fennell
Producing
- Producer
- Larry Harmon
- Executive Producer
- Al Brodax
Writing
- Writer
- Charles Shows
Voices
- Voice
- Jack Mercer (Popeye, Wimpy), Jackson Beck (Brutus), Mae Questel (Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Eugene)
Music
- Music
- Gordon Zahler
Animation
- Animator
- Tom Baron, C.L. Hartman, Z.T. Jablecki, Lou Scheimer, Ervin Kaplan, George Rowley, Jean Blanchard, Hal Sutherland, Cal Dalton, Frank Onaitis (Artists)
Editing
- Editor
- Dan Milner
Production notes
King Features had no cartoon studios, so Popeye storyboards were produced in its offices, while animation was divided between Paramount/Famous Studios, Larry Harmon Productions, Total TV Productions, Gene Deitch/Rembrandt Studios, Halas and Batchelor and Jack Kinney Productions.
Of those stations which bought the King Features Popeye cartoons in 1960, 90% renewed their contracts in 1965.
Note the change in the villain's name… from Bluto to Brutus.
Of those stations which bought the King Features Popeye cartoons in 1960, 90% renewed their contracts in 1965.
Note the change in the villain's name… from Bluto to Brutus.
