Battery Up
- Studio
- Jack Kinney Productions
- Distributor
- King Features Syndicate
Synopsis
Popeye and Brutus compete in one of the most peculiar baseball games ever. The big ball game is between the Spinach Street AC (Popeye's the pitcher) vs. The Boilmaker Boys (Brutus and his gang), with Wimpy as umpire. An enthusiastic Olive sits rooting for Popeye in the otherwise empty stands, a radio and TV by her side. Popeye's zany pitching and Brutus' wild hits and misses turn the championship game into a holocaust.
Characters
Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl, Wimpy
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Jack Kinney
Producing
- Producer
- Jack Kinney
- Executive Producer
- Al Brodax
Writing
- Writer
- Jack Kinney
Voices
- Voice
- Jack Mercer (Popeye, Wimpy), Jackson Beck (Brutus), Mae Questel (Olive Oyl)
Music
- Music
- Ken Lowman
Animation
- Animation Directors
- Volus Jones, Ed Friedman
- Layout
- Robert Givens
- Checking
- Jane Philippi
Art Department
- Background
- Jules Engel, Rosemary O'Connor
- Ink & Paint
- Vera McKinney
Camera
- Camera
- Jack Buehre
Editing
- Editor
- Joe Siracusa
Sound
- Sound Engineer
- Marne Fallis
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.
