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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 11 · permalink

Private office

1:22–1:34 Registered 1954

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

Frame at 1:261:26Frame at 1:321:32

Play from 1:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 19–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • tall, heavyset, wearing a black tuxedo with bow tie and white shirt visible
  • short, wearing a white sailor shirt and brown pants, with a sailor hat visible
Seen happening
  • A butler stands in a hallway as a character in a sailor outfit enters a room. [frame:2]
Seen
butler's tuxedo, sailor outfit, wooden door, chandelier
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly comedic; themes: service, expectation, entry; style notes: medium shots, bright studio lighting, classic cartoon framing

A butler stands in a hallway as a character in a sailor outfit enters a room. A line of dialogue indicates someone is expected.

“Madam is expecting you, sir.” 1:28 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 Private Eye Popeye (1954) at 1:26 (passage 1:22–1:34); US record: No renewal found

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