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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 17 · permalink

Private office

1:57–1:58 Registered 1954

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 1:581:58

Play from 1:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 30–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon character with black hair, yellow shirt, dark skirt, thin build visible
Seen happening
  • A character crouches beside a cabinet and reaches into it. [frame:1]
Seen
cabinet [frame:1], potted plant [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious; themes: investigation, search; style notes: mid-century cartoon animation with flat color and clear outlines; medium shot framing the character and cabinet; indoor lighting with no strong shadows

A cartoon character in a yellow shirt and dark skirt crouches beside a large dark cabinet, reaching into it with one hand while gesturing with the other. The scene is indoors, with a potted plant visible in the background.

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 1:58 (passage 1:57–1:58); US record: No renewal found

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