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You're a Sap, Mr. Jap
Directed byDan Gordon
Story byJim Tyer
Carl Meyer
Produced bySeymour Kneitel
Isadore Sparber
Dan Gordon
Sam Buchward(assistant)
StarringJack Mercer
Animation byJim Tyer
George Germanetti
Tom Johnson (uncredited)
Ben Solomen (uncredited)
Frank Endres (uncredited)
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
September 6, 1942
Running time
7:13
LanguageEnglish

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap is a 1942 one-reel Popeye the Sailor animated cartoon short subject released by Paramount Pictures.[1] It was the first cartoon short to be produced by Famous Studios.[2] It is one of the best-known World War II propaganda cartoons.

Plot

Popeye singlehandedly defeating the crew of a Japanese battleship in which two of their crew members posed as fishermen in the Pacific Ocean.

Production notes

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap is one of the few Popeye the Sailor cartoons not to feature Bluto, Olive Oyl, or Wimpy. A version of this cartoon was presented by Associated Artists Productions, Inc. in the 1950s. The film title gets its name from a novelty song written by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon.

The film was unavailable for commercial release for years due to its racially offensive caricaturing of the Japanese.[2][3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 123–124. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  2. ^ a b Phil Hall (June 5, 2009). "The Bootleg Files:Popeye in "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap"". Film Threat. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
  3. ^ Jeanne T. Heidler (2007). Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America. Greenwood Publishing Company. p. 89. ISBN 0-313-33534-6.
  4. ^ Jamie S. Rich (November 4, 2008). "Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943, Vol. 3". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2009-06-09.


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