It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) in 1936, though it lost to Disney's The Country Cousin .
In 2004, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry as a "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" work. Synopsis Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
The film is celebrated for its use of the multiplane camera (or "setback process"), which placed two-dimensional animation cels in front of detailed, three-dimensional miniature sets to create an immersive sense of depth. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best