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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 43 · permalink

Market

5:20–5:26 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names 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 5:235:23

Play from 5:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 89–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
market (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon man with large forearms, wearing a white shirt and black hat, lying down visible
  • large boot and lower leg, wearing dark pants visible
Seen happening
  • A large boot presses down on a cartoon man lying in a cart. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden cart [frame:1], produce stands with fruit [frame:1], large boot [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comical struggle; themes: physical comedy, cartoon violence; style notes: cartoon animation, bright colors, exaggerated proportions, static medium shot

A cartoon character resembling Popeye lies in a wooden cart in an outdoor market. A large boot is stepping on his chest, and produce stands are visible in the background.

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 5:23 (passage 5:20–5:26); US record: No renewal found

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