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Popeye for President · Beat 28 · permalink

Road

4:30–4:44 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:374:37

Play from 4:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 56–56. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon sailor with muscular build, wearing a white shirt, black vest, and sailor hat visible
  • Ollie (named at t:4:30): cartoon man with mustache, wearing a black suit and top hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Popeye drives a blue convertible with Ollie as passenger along a rural road. [frame:1]
Seen
blue convertible car [frame:1], red barn [frame:1], fence [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and comedic; themes: election, friendship, cartoon politics; style notes: classic 2D animation with bright colors, medium shot framing, flat lighting

Popeye and Ollie are in a car on a rural road; Popeye is driving and Ollie is seated beside him. Ollie declares he will vote for Popeye as they head to the polls.

“The chores are all finished, Ollie. Shall we go to the polls?” 4:30 · “Popeye, I'm casting my vote for you!” 4:30 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 4:37 (passage 4:30–4:44); US record: No renewal found

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