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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 23 · permalink

Cafe de paris

3:07–3:26 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:153:15Frame at 3:243:24Frame at 3:253:25Frame at 3:263:26

Play from 3:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 46–49. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
CAFE de PARIS (restaurant, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • animated man in a black top hat and tuxedo, large build, dark mustache visible
  • animated man in a bowler hat and white apron, round face, holding a menu visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand at a table under a 'CAFE de PARIS' awning. [frame:1]
  • The man in the top hat leans over the table, pointing at a menu held by the other man. [frame:2]
  • The man in the top hat raises his fist toward the other man. [frame:3]
  • The man in the top hat leaps onto the table, preparing to strike the other man. [frame:4]
Seen
CAFE de PARIS awning, menu, Eiffel Tower, outdoor cafe table and chairs
On screen
CAFE de PARIS
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: confrontation, Parisian setting, comedy; style notes: animated, bright colors, exaggerated character expressions and movements, outdoor setting with iconic landmark

Two animated characters interact at an outdoor cafe named 'CAFE de PARIS' with the Eiffel Tower visible in the background. One character, in a top hat, appears to be confronting or attacking the other, who holds a menu, while a voice says 'You're on air, monsieur. Where to, monsieur? Going up.'

“You're on air, monsieur. Where to, monsieur? Going up.” 3:18 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 3:15 (passage 3:07–3:26); US record: No renewal found

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