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Popeye for President · Beat 9 · permalink

Sidewalk

1:59–2:46 Registered 1956

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 2:182:18Frame at 2:402:40Frame at 2:442:44

Play from 1:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 31–33. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon woman with red dress, black hair, thin build visible
  • cartoon man in tuxedo, tall, thin visible
  • cartoon man in tuxedo, shorter, rounder visible
  • Alan (named at t:2:20): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in red lies on the ground near an axe. [frame:2]
  • Two men in tuxedos stand over the woman on the ground. [frame:3]
Also said
“If you want a good looking guy in the White House, vote for me, babe.” 2:20 · “I can't go to the polls till I get the wood all chopped for the winter. No sooner send it chopped, Alan.” 2:20
Seen
mailbox [frame:1], axe [frame:2], tuxedos [frame:3], house [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: absurd and comedic; themes: election satire, gender roles, domestic labor; style notes: cartoonish, bright colors, exaggerated expressions, static framing

A cartoon character in a red dress is seen near a mailbox and later lying on the ground while two men in tuxedos stand nearby. A voice speaks about voting for president and chopping wood, mentioning 'Miss Oil' and 'Alan'.

“Guess I'll do over the White House and canary with Green Crib. Get off the road, son! You're blocking traffic!” 2:04 · “Oh dear, I'll never finish my chores. Miss Oil, I'd like you to vote for me for President.” 2:20 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 2:18 (passage 1:59–2:46); US record: No renewal found

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