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Insect to Injury · Beat 20 · permalink

Bathroom

4:45–5:01 Registered 1956

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:514:51Frame at 4:584:58Frame at 5:005:00

Play from 4:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 32–34. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bathroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • cartoon man with mustache, wearing yellow shirt and red tie, sitting in bathtub visible
  • hand holding can visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bathtub reacts to an insect on the wall. [frame:2]
  • A hand holds a can labeled 'SPINACH'. [frame:3]
Also said
“All chairs.” 5:00
Seen
bathtub, shower head, insect, can labeled 'SPINACH'
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic; themes: insects, bathroom, spinach; style notes: cartoon animation, exaggerated expressions, simple backgrounds

A character in a bathtub reacts to an insect on the wall; a hand holds a can labeled 'SPINACH'. The transcript includes commands to leave and references to insects and chairs.

“Get out.” 4:58 · “Not them, insects.” 4:59 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Insect to Injury (1956) at 4:51 (passage 4:45–5:01); US record: No renewal found

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