Copyright term expired Free in the US since 1 January 2024: the full term of registration MP2124 of 1928 by Walter E. Disney has run out. Record.
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.
Released 1928 (Internet Archive).
3 beats in 3 sequences, cut automatically at shot boundaries scored on picture change, pauses in speech, topic shifts, on-screen text and cutting rhythm (each beat says why it starts where it does). Each is annotated by a vision-language model from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in it, as observations with evidence; anything the frames and lines do not support is left null. Machine annotation (Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct), checked automatically: quotes must be verbatim, names must be spoken, "visible" events are sampled to a second model. 3 of 3 beats annotated, 3 passed the checks, 0 flagged.
Passages cut at shot boundaries and annotated by a machine from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in them. Each beat says why it starts where it does and what was checked; sequences are visual groups, not scenes.
0:46Model synopsis: A cartoon steamboat with three smokestacks emits smoke; a voice urges action with repeated 'Come on' phrases. No named characters appear, and the setting is a boat's deck under an overcast sky.
1 person observed.
“Come on.” 0:47 · “Oh, yeah!” 0:48
1:39Model synopsis: A cartoon cat character is shown in profile, looking toward the left. The scene is a simple interior with a plain wall and corner visible.
1 person observed.
4:43Model synopsis: Mickey Mouse is visible in a kitchen, interacting with a pot and a duck. A bell rings and a character whistles, with exclamations of 'Oh, my God' heard. No names are spoken that identify the characters.
2 people observed.
“I'm going to go.” 2:00 · “Oh!” 3:09
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.
By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement
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