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Popeye for President · Beat 2 · permalink

Town square

0:14–0:31 Registered 1956

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

Frame at 0:190:19Frame at 0:270:27

Play from 0:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 2 · shots 8–9. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Popeye (named at frame:2): cartoon sailor with muscular build, wearing a white shirt and black hat, standing on a float visible
  • cartoon crowd of men in suits and hats, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • Title card for 'Popeye for President' is displayed with credits. [frame:1]
  • Popeye stands on a float labeled 'SPINACH PARTY' in front of a crowd. [frame:2]
Seen
title card, float, crowd
On screen
ENDRES PRESIDENT SHARPLES by Corporation
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and satirical; themes: political satire, cartoon politics, public spectacle; style notes: bright, flat animation with bold colors and clear outlines; medium shot of crowd with Popeye elevated on float

The beat shows a title card for the animated short 'Popeye for President' followed by a scene of Popeye on a float in a crowd. No dialogue is present 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 0:19 (passage 0:14–0:31); US record: No renewal found

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