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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 21 · permalink

Private office

2:36–3:04 Registered 1954

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

Frame at 2:462:46Frame at 2:582:58Frame at 3:023:02

Play from 2:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 42–44. 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
  • man in yellow shirt and brown pants, lying on floor visible
  • man in purple coat and black top hat, in airplane cockpit visible
  • man in yellow shirt and brown pants, flying beside airplane visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on the floor in a room. [frame:1]
  • Two men are in the cockpit of a red airplane. [frame:2]
  • One man flies beside the airplane while pointing. [frame:3]
Seen
brick wall [frame:1], wood paneling [frame:1], mirror [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:1], red airplane [frame:2], top hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comical and exaggerated; themes: pursuit, arrest, flight; style notes: cartoon animation with bright colors, clear outlines, and dynamic action poses; medium and wide shots used for action

A man lies on the floor in a room with brick and wood paneling; two men are shown in a red airplane, one of whom is later seen flying beside it. A line from the transcript states, 'I arrest you in the name of the law.'

“I arrest you in the name of the law.” 2:48 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 2:46 (passage 2:36–3:04); US record: No renewal found

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