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'''''You're a Sap, Mr. Jap''''' is a 1942 one-reel animated cartoon short subject released by [[Paramount Pictures]]. It was the first cartoon featuring [[Popeye|Popeye the Sailor]] in a series produced by [[Famous Studios]], which took over the Popeye theatrical franchise from [[Fleischer Studios]].<ref name=FT>http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=2332</ref> It is one of the best-known [[World War II]] propaganda cartoons, and also one of the few Popeye cartoons to not include either [[Bluto]], [[Olive Oyl]], or [[J. Wellington Wimpy|Wimpy]].
  
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}}'''''You're a Sap, Mr. Jap''''' is a 1942 one-reel animated cartoon short subject released by [[Paramount Pictures]]. It was the first cartoon featuring [[Popeye|Popeye the Sailor]] in a series produced by [[Famous Studios]], which took over the Popeye theatrical franchise from [[Fleischer Studios]].<ref name=FT>http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=2332</ref> It is one of the best-known [[World War II]] propaganda cartoons, and also one of the few Popeye cartoons to not include either [[Bluto]], [[Olive Oyl]], or [[J. Wellington Wimpy|Wimpy]].
   
 
==Plot==
  
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[[File:Youreasapmrjap.jpg|thumb|480px]]The cartoon, which gets its title from a novelty song written by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon, finds Popeye singlehandedly defeating the crew of a Japanese [[battleship]] in the Pacific Ocean. The cartoon was kept out of commercial release for years due to its racially offensive caricaturing of the Japanese and to the climactic sequence where the Japanese naval commander commits suicide by drinking gasoline and consuming lit firecrackers. However, it re-emerged in a November 2008 DVD release of Popeye cartoons produced between 1941 to 1943.<ref name=FT /><ref>Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America. Jeanne T. Heidler. Greenwood Publishing Company. Page 89.</ref><ref>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/35395/popeye-the-sailor-1941-1943-vol-3/</ref>
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The cartoon, which gets its title from a novelty song written by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon, finds Popeye singlehandedly defeating the crew of a Japanese [[ship|battleship]] in the Pacific Ocean. The cartoon was kept out of commercial release for years due to its racially offensive caricaturing of the Japanese and to the climactic sequence where the Japanese naval commander commits suicide by drinking gasoline and consuming lit firecrackers.
   
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However, it re-emerged in a November 2008 DVD release of Popeye cartoons produced between 1941 to 1943.<ref name=FT /><ref>Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America. Jeanne T. Heidler. Greenwood Publishing Company. Page 89.</ref><ref>http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/35395/popeye-the-sailor-1941-1943-vol-3/</ref>
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You're_a_Sap_Mr._Jap_3.png|''"Imma peace-lovin' guy meself."''
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You're_a_Sap_Mr._Jap_6.png|''"If Japanese boy don't win... he lose face!"''
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== Notes ==
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In the Public Domain in the United States.
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You're a Sap, Mr. Jap is a 1942 one-reel animated cartoon short subject released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first cartoon featuring Popeye the Sailor in a series produced by Famous Studios, which took over the Popeye theatrical franchise from Fleischer Studios.[1] It is one of the best-known World War II propaganda cartoons, and also one of the few Popeye cartoons to not include either Bluto, Olive Oyl, or Wimpy.

Plot

The cartoon, which gets its title from a novelty song written by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon, finds Popeye singlehandedly defeating the crew of a Japanese battleship in the Pacific Ocean. The cartoon was kept out of commercial release for years due to its racially offensive caricaturing of the Japanese and to the climactic sequence where the Japanese naval commander commits suicide by drinking gasoline and consuming lit firecrackers.

However, it re-emerged in a November 2008 DVD release of Popeye cartoons produced between 1941 to 1943.[1][2][3]

Gallery

Notes

In the Public Domain in the United States.

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=2332
  2. ↑ Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America. Jeanne T. Heidler. Greenwood Publishing Company. Page 89.
  3. ↑ http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/35395/popeye-the-sailor-1941-1943-vol-3/

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