Ghosks Is the Bunk

Ghosks Is the Bunk is a 1939 animated short starring Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto. Olive reads a ghost story to Popeye and Bluto. Bluto leaves and rigs a haunted house and lures them to it. But they quickly discover him and, even better, a can of invisible paint, and they get the better of him.

Ghosks is in the Bunk
Directed by	Dave Fleischer[1] Animation: William Henning (uncredited)
Produced by	Max Fleischer Isadore Sparber Sam Buchwald
Starring	Jack Mercer Margie Hines[1] Hamp Howard[2]
Edited by	Kitty Pfister[1]
Music by	Sammy Timberg
Animation by	William Henning Abner Matthews
Layouts by	Anton Loeb
Backgrounds by	Anton Loeb[1]
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 14, 1939 (1939-06-14)
Running time	6:36
Country	United States
Language	English

Voice Cast

• Jack Mercer as Popeye
• Margie Hines as Olive Oyl^[1]
• Hamp Howard as Bluto^[2]
• Additional Voices by William Pennell^[1]

Title

Ghosks Is the Bunk is the original title, but was mistakenly changed to "Ghosk Is the Bunk" when re-colored years later. This mistake came from tracing over the original title card.

Releases

The black-and-white version of this short is available on DVD on Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940, Volume 2.

The re-colored version of the short was shown on TBS from 1987 to 1992 as a segment of the Tom & Jerry Halloween Special.