Movies by Izzy Sparber

Beaus Will Be Beaus

Beaus Will Be Beaus

Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...

Casper Takes a Bow-Wow

Casper Takes a Bow-Wow

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, who does not like scaring people, is hauled up before the Ghost Tribunal and is quickly convicted of Friendship-in-the-First Degree and is booted out of the local ghost community.

The Lone Star State

The Lone Star State

An animated short about Texas. Includes a sing-a-long of "Deep in the Heart of Texas."

The Circus Comes to Clown

The Circus Comes to Clown

A series of circus acts (fast, furious and funny gags) leads to the trapeze act and the sing-a-long begins with "The Man On The Trapeze".

Ghost of the Town

Ghost of the Town

In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people.

A Balmy Swami

A Balmy Swami

Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediate makes plans. First, he humiliates Popeye with a series of magic tricks. Next, he hypnotizes Olive, but while she's walking toward Bluto in a trance, Popeye points her the other way and goes after Bluto himself. Meanwhile, Olive has walked out the stage door and onto a construction site, and the boys race to save her. Popeye's efforts are hampered by Bluto's ...

A Mutt in a Rut

A Mutt in a Rut

A new kitten is brought home and the family dog "Dogface" isn't happy.

Once Upon a Rhyme

Once Upon a Rhyme

Casper the Friendly Ghost doesn't like to haunt and wishes he could be in Mother Gooseland.

Dutch Treat

Dutch Treat

Casper, the always friendly and friend-seeking ghost, is in Holland where little Hans is a willing playmate as he does his chores.

Spinach Fer Britain

Spinach Fer Britain

Popeye delivers his precious and needed cargo of spinach to Britain, despite the efforts of a Nazi submarine to sink his ship.

Heap Hep Injuns

Heap Hep Injuns

"Heap Hep Injuns" is an animated short about how "Indians used to live" (IE: a 1940's, non-PC view of Indian life.) Includes a sing-a-long of "My Pony Boy."

Little Red School Mouse

Little Red School Mouse

The primary subject taught in Mouse School is Cat Identification. One little mouse announces he doesn't know what a cat is and has never seen one. Meanwhile, Mr. Cat has found his way into the classroom, but the dumb little mouse stands up and challenges him, which gives the other little mice the courage to a concerted attack against the cat.

Gobs of Fun

Gobs of Fun

The captain of a ship's crew, a mouse, goes to the bar to pick up his men. After forcing the initially reluctant sailors onboard, they set sail and hit the (literal) high seas. Spots gags abound such as a cook dumping the garbage overboard into a clam's mouth, the clam getting his revenge by climbing onboard and spraying the garbage back at the cook, and a running gag involving a bear who is splashed by his bucket of water each time he throws it overboard. Finally, we are invited to sing along to the old sea tune, "Strike Up the Band".

Spring Song

Spring Song

Winter comes to an end as a wood nymph plays his flute to Mendelsohn's "Spring Song".

Nurse to Meet Ya

Nurse to Meet Ya

Olive is playing nanny in the park as Popeye and Bluto bicycle past. They fight over her, waking the baby. Then they take turns trying to stop the baby crying or sabotaging the other's efforts. Popeye does impressions of a dog and an airplane and juggles cannonballs; Bluto does some rope twirling and a snake-charmer act.

Frighty Cat

Frighty Cat

Herman the mouse and his little mice pals are having a good time in River City's pool-hall, that doesn't have a billiards table anywhere in it...and that spells trouble when mice are playing pocket pool, and it soon arrives in the form of Katnip Kat looking to cause some disturbance. But, having just read a horror book, Katnip is a bit off his usual game and is a bit nervous. Herman, crafty as ever, plays on these fears and Katnip is scared off.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Katnip the cat, shedding his fur (hair) is concerned that if he goes bald he will lose his fickle-feline girlfriend...

Ship A-Hooey

Ship A-Hooey

Under Captain Herman, work for each mouse-sailor is more like play. But the fun ends when they bring aboard a castaway who turns out to be Katnip the Pirate.

Silly Hillbilly

Silly Hillbilly

Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a hammock, does violence to his store. But Olive arrives, looking for a makeover, and that distracts Popeye a while. Bluto sees the "new" Olive and gets jealous, and the feud is on.

Barking Dogs Don't Fite

Barking Dogs Don't Fite

Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch avoids Killer for a while, but is eventually caught, and when Popeye tries to help, Bluto takes him out of commission as well, until they both eat their spinach just before Bluto is ready to run them both over with a steam-roller.