# Hold the Wire (1936)

Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire fight on the telephone lines outside Olive's house. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/hold-the-wire-1936/

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1936
- By: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/hold-the-wire-1936)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.