Weaponized Animation

This morning's cartoons featured a couple of 1940s-vintage Popeye shorts. There was The Mighty Navy, which was released in October of '41, making it the last pre-war Popeye cartoon and the first to feature Popeye in U.S. Navy whites...

This was followed by Fleets of Stren'th, from March of 1942, in which a spinach-fueled Popeye does more damage to the IJN's carrier arm than the USN yet had, although it provided nice foreshadowing for the smackdowns looming in the near future for the Chrysanthemum Fleet.

The YouTube versions are excerpts, since they aren't in the public domain. Foreign bootleg uploads pop up on DailyMotion, or you can tune in to MeTV at 0700 Eastern on Saturday mornings, or they're available on DVD or for downloaded via Amazon Prime.

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