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Insect to Injury · Beat 21 · permalink

Bathroom

5:01–5:07 Registered 1956

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:045:04

Play from 5:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 35–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bathroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon man, bald, wearing yellow shirt and blue overalls, holding a spatula and a frying pan visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits in a bathtub holding a frying pan and spatula, looking up at a shower head. [frame:1]
Seen
bathtub [frame:1], shower head [frame:1], frying pan [frame:1], spatula [frame:1], brick wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: absurd; themes: domestic absurdity, misplaced objects; style notes: cartoon animation, medium shot, flat lighting, simple background

A cartoon man in overalls sits in a bathtub with a frying pan and spatula, looking at a shower head. The scene is indoors, with no spoken dialogue or on-screen text.

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 5:04 (passage 5:01–5:07); US record: No renewal found

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