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Popeye for President · Beat 24 · permalink

Dirt path

4:13–4:19 Registered 1956

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 4:164:16

Play from 4:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 52–52. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dirt_path (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon man with beard, wearing black tuxedo, seated in vehicle visible
  • cartoon man in dark suit, running alongside vehicle visible
Seen happening
  • A bearded man drives a red vehicle carrying a large wooden structure. [frame:1]
  • A second man runs alongside the moving vehicle. [frame:1]
Seen
red vehicle with caterpillar tracks [frame:1], large wooden structure resembling a barrel or wagon [frame:1], palm tree [frame:1], green hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: chase, transport, comedy; style notes: cartoon animation with flat colors and simple backgrounds; medium shot showing full vehicle and characters

A cartoon character drives a small red vehicle with a large wooden structure on its back while another character runs alongside. The scene is set outdoors on a dirt path with a palm tree and green hills in the background.

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 4:16 (passage 4:13–4:19); US record: No renewal found

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