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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 40 · permalink

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5:16–5:17 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:175:17

Play from 5:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 86–86. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon character with large forearms, wearing a yellow shirt and a brown hat, holding a green object and a mug visible
Seen happening
  • A cartoon character leans over a surface, holding a green object and a mug, with an open-mouthed expression. [frame:1]
Seen
green object [frame:1], mug [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: comedy, cartoon character; style notes: cartoon animation with bold colors and exaggerated expressions; medium close-up shot with flat lighting

A cartoon character resembling Popeye, wearing a yellow shirt and a hat, holds a green object and a mug while leaning over a surface. 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 5:17 (passage 5:16–5:17); US record: No renewal found

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