Public Reel

STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)

3 shots over 7:41, read from the Internet Archive copy steamboat-willie_1928 (steamboat-willie_1928.mp4, 1300×1080, 23.98 fps). Shot boundaries by PySceneDetect's adaptive detector; each frame links to the Archive's player at that second. Registry dossier: STEAMBOAT WILLIE Copyright term expired. JSON

Measurements: black-and-white film on its keyframes (0 of 3 shots judged colour), average shot 153.7s long, a frontal face detected in 0% of keyframes. Shots are detected automatically and each is represented by its midpoint frame.

Transcript

Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 23 segments kept, 36 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.

  1. 0:47 Come on.
  2. 0:48 Oh, yeah!
  3. 0:54 Ah!
  4. 1:03 Come on.
  5. 1:04 Ah!
  6. 1:08 Come on.
  7. 1:14 Come on.
  8. 2:00 I'm going to go.
  9. 2:42 I'm sorry.
  10. 3:09 Oh!
  11. 3:09 Oh, my God.
  12. 4:05 Come on.
  13. 4:46 I
  14. 5:54 Whistling
  15. 6:14 Oh.
  16. 6:15 Oh, my God.
  17. 6:47 *Bell rings*
  18. 6:49 *Bell rings*
  19. 6:51 Grrr!
  20. 6:58 Whistling
3 more segments
  1. 7:01 Oh, my God.
  2. 7:03 Oh, my God.
  3. 7:37 Captain.
The video itself is not here and never will be; only the shot list, one small frame per shot, and text read off the frames by OCR. The status badge is the registry's finding about the copyright record, which is separate from whether this particular Archive copy is the film it says it is.
shot 0
0 0:00–1:32 92.8s similar · share
shot 1
1 1:32–1:45 12.7s similar · share
shot 2
2 1:45–7:41 355.6s similar · share