Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 0:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 4 · shots 8–11. 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
- Popeye (named at t:0:31): cartoon man, muscular, wearing yellow suit, green tie, brown hat, holding pipe visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Popeye picks up the telephone receiver. [frame:2]
- Popeye speaks into the phone while holding a pipe. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Garge.” 0:37
- Seen
- rotary telephone [frame:1], desk [frame:1], pipe [frame:3], typewriter [frame:3], skull [frame:3], framed photos [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: deadpan, slightly absurd; themes: private detective trope, comedy, office setting; style notes: mid-century cartoon animation, flat color, medium close-up shots, static camera, bright interior lighting
A private eye named Popeye is shown at his desk, answering a telephone call. He is wearing a yellow suit and a hat, and speaks into the receiver while holding a pipe.
“Private eye Popeye.” 0:31 · “At your service.” 0:32 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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