
Directing
Seymour Kneitel
Born — Died
1908-03-16 — 1964-07-30
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
Little Lulu's daddy gives her a blue posey to exhibit at a flower show. She loses it on the way and a bulldog prevents her from reacquiring it, but she outwits him and proceeds to the show. There she breaks the stalk when she uses her bean-shooter at a hummingbird. She tosses the flower in a barrel of Vigaro and the flower suddenly bursts into bloom again.
Daffydilly Daddy
1945
7.0Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of which seem to involve wedging Olive into small bent pipes. Eventually, Popeye has his spinach and finishes the house, but the house collapses as they are celebrating with a kiss.
House Tricks?
1946
5.4Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.
Puppet Love
1944
7.3Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.
Popalong Popeye
1952
A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.
Madhattan Island
1947
Katnip has a cold and reads that eating a fresh crow is a sure cure. Cros didn't come any fresher than Buzzy, and when Katnip spies him ice-skating, he decides to eat him. But Buzzy has no intentions of becoming cat food and he tells the cat he has an ever better cure for colds. Buzzy brews up a concoction of pepper, tabasco sauce and mustard, which turn the cat into a fireworks display, and a blazing sun-lamp sets him on fire. The burning cat rushes out into the snow, which melts...and then freezes over him. Buzzy resumes his ice skating.
Cat-Choo
1951
Behind the camera
Little Lulu's daddy gives her a blue posey to exhibit at a flower show. She loses it on the way and a bulldog prevents her from reacquiring it, but she outwits him and proceeds to the show. There she breaks the stalk when she uses her bean-shooter at a hummingbird. She tosses the flower in a barrel of Vigaro and the flower suddenly bursts into bloom again.
Daffydilly Daddy
1945
7.0Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of which seem to involve wedging Olive into small bent pipes. Eventually, Popeye has his spinach and finishes the house, but the house collapses as they are celebrating with a kiss.
House Tricks?
1946
5.4Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.
Puppet Love
1944
7.3Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.
Popalong Popeye
1952
A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.
Madhattan Island
1947
Katnip has a cold and reads that eating a fresh crow is a sure cure. Cros didn't come any fresher than Buzzy, and when Katnip spies him ice-skating, he decides to eat him. But Buzzy has no intentions of becoming cat food and he tells the cat he has an ever better cure for colds. Buzzy brews up a concoction of pepper, tabasco sauce and mustard, which turn the cat into a fireworks display, and a blazing sun-lamp sets him on fire. The burning cat rushes out into the snow, which melts...and then freezes over him. Buzzy resumes his ice skating.
Cat-Choo
1951
5.1Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
Nearlyweds
1957
5.1Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
Nearlyweds
1957
This cartoon concerns the efforts of a kitten, Gabriel, and a mouse, Peter, who apparently live in peaceful coexistence in the home of Parson Peaseporridge, to get the Parson to wake up at night and feed them their milk and cheese, respectively. The Parson repeatedly rises up, in a fit of sleepwalking, and reaches the cupboard, while muttering the need to feed the "churchkitten" and "churchmouse," but then proceeds to drink the milk and eat the cheese himself. Eventually, the kitten and mouse enlist the aid of a neighboring puppy named Trumpet to achieve their goal.
Gabriel Churchkitten
1944
8.0The cavemen go to the Paramountain Theater.
Dizzy Dinosaurs
1952
Singalong with spot gags about the Mississippi River as it runs from Minneapolis/St. Paul through Davenport and St. Louis down to New Orleans.
Drippy Mississippi
1951
6.7Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
Taxi-Turvy
1954
6.7Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
Taxi-Turvy
1954
6.5Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.
Spooky Swabs
1957
7.5Baby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to be too big and stupid to join. When a wolf shows up all the other ducks run away but Huey mistakes him for the scout master, and asks for his help. The wolf gives him several tasks to perform, all designed with Huey ending up on the wolf's dinner table, but dumb Huey turns the situations and the wolf is rendered harmless. The scouts make Huey an honorary member, and the battered wolf is used as a patrol flag.
Scout Fellow
1951
6.2Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto).
Greek Mirthology
1954
In this outing, Huey goes to a birthday party, causes his usual havoc and the baby ducks blindfold Huey and send him away playing pin the tail on the donkey.
Party Smarty
1951
Singalong about an all-animal orchestra, spoofing the musicians and various instruments of the orchestra.
Philharmaniacs
1953
6.0Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
Japoteurs
1942
"Helter Swelter" is an animated short about the first days of summer. Includes a sing-a-long of "In the Good Old Summertime"
Helter Swelter
1950
10.0Beatnik mice are chased by a square cat.
Miceniks
1961
6.5Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on.
Beach Peach
1950
8.0A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.
Penny Antics
1955
8.0A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.
Penny Antics
1955
6.0Two of Popeye's nephews get caught playing with fireworks on the Fourth of July. Popeye takes them away, and they spend the rest of the picture trying to get them back (mostly by getting Popeye away from them).
Patriotic Popeye
1957
Pal so much wants to go to school with Audrey, but she shoos him away. Audrey then has to rescue Pal from a sadistic dogcatcher.
Dawg Gawn
1958
Ignatz find out that true friends can't be bought.
Mouse Blanche
1962
NRCasper must foil the plans of an evil scientist who is trying to block the light of the sun from reaching Earth.
Cold Wave
1963
NRCasper meets his cousin, Spooky and befriends him. That night, Spooky gets frightened by strange noises and Casper wants to protect Spooky.
City Snicker
1963
Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare have to get a picture of a missile launching or get fired.
Turtle Scoop
1961
A boy with a springlike spine bounces his way through childhood.
Bouncing Benny
1960
In his first outing at trying to do his first good deed as a Boy Scout, Goodie is tormented by the evil gremlins at every turn. The other gremlins hate Goodie because he won't let them have fun going bad things. When he stops two gremlins from starting a fight with two friendly neighbors, the evil sprites tie Goodie up and continue to make trouble with the neighbors. Getting some assistance from an unlikely source, Goodie foils the gremlins' scheme, and the two neighbors became pals once again.
Goodie's Good Deed
1964
6.2Popeye is planting his spinach bed. Just as he finishes, the plants start disappearing. He discovers a gopher filching the baby plants and starts battling it.
Gopher Spinach
1954
Tired of living a dog's life, Julius the dog leaves home and decides to be human for a while. The canine steals a new suit of clothes and buys a cigar so that he'll look like a human. Masquerading as a gentleman around town, he runs into the horrors of gambling, gangsters and French restaurants.
Houndabout
1959
10.0Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
Fit to Be Toyed
1959
10.0Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
Fit to Be Toyed
1959
7.0Professor Schmaltz sets out to prove his theory about music's soothing abilities throughout Africa.
Fiddle-Faddle
1960
The Trio see Casper reading a book about insects and decide if they could become tiny, they could spook all the insects in the Enchanted Forest. Fatso tricks Casper into getting them some magic reducing pills from the witches.
Small Spooks
1963
NRCasper's lookalike - but big and muscular - cousin Powerhouse drops by for a visit, and they team up to scare the Ghostly Trio into ending their bullying ways.
Super Spooks
1963
10.0A jazzbo cat is playing jazz in his home when he is disturbed by the mouse orchestra hidden within his wall.
Hep Cat Symphony
1949
