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Popeye for President · Beat 32 · permalink

Road

4:52–5:03 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 4:584:58

Play from 4:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 60–60. 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 man with black mustache, wearing top hat and tuxedo, driving visible
  • cartoon woman with red dress and gray hat, standing in back seat visible
Seen happening
  • A cartoon man drives a blue convertible with a cartoon woman standing in the back seat. [frame:1]
Seen
blue convertible car [frame:1], red barn [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comical confrontation; themes: voting, political satire, cartoon rivalry; style notes: classic 2D animation, bright flat colors, medium shot framing the car and characters

A cartoon character drives a blue convertible on a dirt road while another character stands in the back seat; dialogue indicates a dispute over voting. The setting is rural with a red barn and trees visible.

“You? I'm not voting for!” 4:56 · “Oh, yes you are!” 4:56 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 4:58 (passage 4:52–5:03); US record: No renewal found

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