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Popeye for President · Beat 18 · permalink

Field

3:28–3:32 Registered 1956

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:303:30

Play from 3:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 42–42. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon sailor with black shirt, white collar, black pants, and a red hat; muscular build visible
  • cartoon woman with red dress, white shoes, and long limbs; slender build visible
Seen happening
  • Popeye carries Olive Oyl in his arms across a field. [frame:1]
Seen
Popeye's sailor hat [frame:1], Olive Oyl's red dress [frame:1], stylized green hills and trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: cartoon adventure, character movement; style notes: flat 2D animation, bold outlines, saturated colors, medium shot

Popeye carries Olive Oyl across a stylized outdoor landscape. The scene is animated with flat colors and no dialogue in this segment.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Popeye for President (1956) at 3:30 (passage 3:28–3:32); US record: No renewal found

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