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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 49 · permalink

Ocean and hill

5:45–5:55 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:485:48Frame at 5:535:53Frame at 5:545:54

Play from 5:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 95–97. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ocean and hill (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon character with large forearms, wearing a dark shirt and light pants, flying through the air visible
  • cartoon character with large forearms, wearing a light shirt and dark pants, standing on a hill visible
Seen happening
  • A cartoon character flies through the sky above the ocean. [frame:1]
  • A cartoon character stands on a hill while another flies past overhead. [frame:2]
  • A cartoon character continues flying through the sky. [frame:3]
Seen
cartoon character flying, cartoon character standing on hill, cartoon character flying
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and dynamic; themes: flight, cartoon action; style notes: cartoon animation with bright colors, exaggerated motion, and simple backgrounds

A cartoon character is shown flying through the sky above the ocean and a hill. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this sequence.

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 5:48 (passage 5:45–5:55); US record: No renewal found

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