TAXI-TURVY (1954)
81 shots over 6:03, read from the Internet Archive copy taxi-turvy (taxi-turvy_512kb.mp4, 320×240, 29.97 fps). Shot boundaries by PySceneDetect's adaptive detector; each frame links to the Archive's player at that second. Registry dossier: TAXI-TURVY No renewal found. JSON
Measurements: colour film on its keyframes (80 of 81 shots judged colour), average shot 4.5s long, a frontal face detected in 7% 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. 16 segments kept, 11 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.
- 0:48 This buddy's taken, bub.
- 0:53 Taxi!
- 0:55 Hey, taxi!
- 0:57 Coming right up, pup.
- 1:02 The rich hotel, John, and step on it.
- 1:17 Taxi mister. I said the rich hotel. Damn nabbit.
- 1:52 That Rube was a healthy dipper.
- 1:55 Yoo-hoo! Taxi! Well, I'm getting this fair.
- 2:02 23 Skidoo Street, driver.
- 2:32 Why, that double-crossing fair snatcher.
- 3:26 Oh, oh.
- 3:56 Oh, oh, the train's coming.
- 4:27 Hmm, there's something fishy going on around here. I've had enough!
- 4:43 No fair is getting away from me.
- 4:58 Oh, no.
- 5:00 You ain't eatin' no spinach in this picture.

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