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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 19 · permalink

Warehouse

2:21–2:22 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:222:22

Play from 2:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(warehouse, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon character in a sailor outfit with a round head and large nose, wearing a white shirt and dark pants visible
  • cartoon character in dark clothing, possibly a suit, with a large build visible
Seen happening
  • A character in a sailor outfit raises both arms in the air. [frame:1]
  • A character in dark clothing runs from left to right across the frame. [frame:1]
Seen
barrels [frame:1], crates [frame:1], wooden floor [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: chase, comedy, clash of characters; style notes: cartoon animation with high-contrast lighting and exaggerated character poses

A cartoon character in a sailor outfit raises his arms while another character in dark clothing runs past him in a dimly lit interior space with barrels and crates. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 2:22 (passage 2:21–2:22); US record: No renewal found

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