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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 18 · permalink

Private office

1:58–2:21 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:581:58Frame at 2:002:00Frame at 2:012:01Frame at 2:132:13

Play from 1:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 31–36. 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
  • woman, black hair in a bun, yellow top, dark skirt visible
  • man, detective hat, yellow shirt, green tie, pipe in mouth visible
  • man, dark suit, mustache, holding small object visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a pink piggy bank and leans toward a man. [frame:1]
  • A man in a detective hat looks surprised with a pipe in his mouth. [frame:2]
  • The woman and the detective stand together with the piggy bank between them. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit holds a small object near a window with green light. [frame:4]
Seen
pink piggy bank [frame:1], detective hat [frame:2], pipe [frame:2], window with green light [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comical suspense; themes: mystery, comedy, misunderstanding; style notes: cartoon animation with bold colors, medium close-ups, and dramatic lighting in the final frame

A woman in a yellow top holds a pink piggy bank while a man in a detective hat reacts. Another man in a suit is seen holding a small object near a window at night. No names are spoken in the provided transcript.

“Guard this precious stone with your life.” 1:58 · “Hmm, that's quite a rock you got there. Huh?” 2:11 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 1:58 (passage 1:58–2:21); US record: No renewal found

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