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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 39 · permalink

Market

4:48–5:16 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:494:49Frame at 4:564:56Frame at 5:025:02Frame at 5:155:15

Play from 4:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 68–85. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
market (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • tall, robed figure with white beard and red robe, wearing a turban visible
  • man in purple cloak and dark tunic, large nose, glasses visible, audible
  • man in yellow tunic and cap, leaning over a cart visible
Seen happening
  • A character in a purple cloak addresses a robed figure indoors. [frame:1]
  • The scene shifts to an outdoor market with produce carts and a character in yellow leaning over a cart. [frame:3]
Seen
purple cloak, red robe and turban, produce carts with fruit and greenery, sign with Arabic script
On screen
{'frame': 4, 'value': 'سبح'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and theatrical; themes: arrest, market life, cultural setting; style notes: cartoonish animation with bold colors and exaggerated character designs; static framing with abrupt cuts between interior and exterior scenes

A character in a purple cloak speaks to a robed figure indoors, then the scene cuts to an outdoor market with produce carts, where a yellow-clad character leans over a cart with greenery. A sign with Arabic script is visible near the cart.

“A present for you, Princess. I arrest you in the name of a...” 4:48 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 4:49 (passage 4:48–5:16); US record: No renewal found

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