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Popeye for President · Beat 37 · permalink

Street

5:35–5:50 Registered 1956

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:435:43

Play from 5:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 66–66. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
banner, rope, buildings
On screen
VOTE FOR POPEYE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: election, campaigning; style notes: cartoon animation, wide shot, flat lighting, urban setting

A banner reading 'VOTE FOR POPEYE' is strung between buildings in a city. A character resembling Popeye is visible on the banner, which is attached to a rope.

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 5:43 (passage 5:35–5:50); US record: No renewal found

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