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Popeye for President · Beat 22 · permalink

Farm

3:46–4:04 Registered 1956

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:503:50Frame at 3:563:56Frame at 4:004:00Frame at 4:034:03

Play from 3:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 46–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(farm, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • cartoon man in black tuxedo, white shirt, black bow tie, top hat, smoking a pipe visible
  • cartoon woman with dark hair in red top and black skirt, red headband visible
Seen happening
  • A cartoon character rides a fence rail across a field. [frame:1]
  • The man in the tuxedo and the woman face each other and gesture. [frame:2]
  • The woman dances while the man watches, pipe in mouth. [frame:3]
  • A tractor pulls a hay wagon past a red barn. [frame:4]
Seen
white fence rail, red barn, tractor, hay wagon, top hat, pipe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and comedic; themes: farm labor, romantic interaction, cartoon slapstick; style notes: flat color animation, medium shots, bright outdoor lighting, exaggerated character movements

A cartoon character in a tuxedo and top hat interacts with a woman in a red top and black skirt on a farm, while a tractor pulls a hay wagon near a red barn. The dialogue mentions finishing a task and moving to poles, with a reminder to put hay in the hayloft.

“That one's all done.” 3:50 · “Now to the poles. Oh, I almost forgot. That hay must be put in the hayloft.” 3:56 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 3:50 (passage 3:46–4:04); US record: No renewal found

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