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Trailer till Popeye the slayer man

Seriefiguren Karl-Alfred blir skräck – skräms i fabrik

1 januari 2025 löper rättigheterna för flera kulturella fenomen ut i USA. Till exempel de välkända seriefigurerna Karl-Alfred och Tintin, rapporterar TT.

Sjömannen Karl-Alfred, som blir otroligt stark när han klämt i sig en burk spenat, kommer redan 2025 att förekomma i skräckfilmen ”Popeye the slayer man” där han med mord i blick jagar ungdomar i en öde spenatfabrik och i skumma hamnkvarter.

För den belgiske seriehjälten Tintin har copyrightreglerna endast upphört i USA. I Europa skyddas han i 70 år efter upphovsmannens död och Tintintecknaren Hergé levde fram till 1983.

Andra verk som nu blir fritt tillgängliga att bearbeta och adaptera är komikerna bröderna Marx första film ”Miljonärernas paradis”, Alfred Hitchcocks första ljudfilm ”Utpressning” samt romanerna ”Farväl till vapnen”, av Ernest Hemingway, och ”Ett eget rum”, av Virginia Woolf.

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Karl-Alfred
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Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the lead character, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Following Segar's death in 1938, Thimble Theatre (later renamed Popeye) was continued by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments on Sundays, written and drawn by R. K. Milholland. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories. In 1933, Max Fleischer adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Fleischer Studios, which later became Paramount's own Famous Studios, continued production through 1957. Cartoons produced during World War II included Allied propaganda, as was common among cartoons of the time. These cartoon shorts are now owned by Turner Entertainment and distributed by its sister company Warner Bros. Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, video games, hundreds of advertisements, peripheral products ranging from spinach to candy cigarettes, and the 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams as Popeye. Charles M. Schulz said, "I think Popeye was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor". In 2002, TV Guide ranked Popeye number 20 on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list.
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Tintin
Wikipedia (en)
Tintin (; French: [tɛ̃tɛ̃]) is the titular protagonist of The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The character was created in 1929 and introduced in Le Petit Vingtième, a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. Appearing as a young man with a round face and quiff hairstyle, Tintin is depicted as a precocious, multitalented reporter who travels the world with his dog Snowy. Since his inception in the early 20th century, Tintin has remained a popular literary figure with statues and commemorative murals of the character seen throughout Belgium. In addition to the original comic series, Tintin has appeared in numerous plays, radio shows, television shows, and feature films, including the Steven Spielberg-directed film The Adventures of Tintin (2011). As of 1 January 2025, Tintin and other characters appearing in the 1929 comic strips will enter the public domain in the United States, but not in Hergé's native Belgium.
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