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Private Eye Popeye · Beat 51 · permalink

Private office

6:04–6:25 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:056:05Frame at 6:086:08Frame at 6:186:18Frame at 6:236:23

Play from 6:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 99–106. 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
  • woman with black hair, wearing a yellow dress and black skirt, seated on a couch visible
  • Ghost (named at t:6:15): man with orange skin, wearing a detective hat and suit, holding a pipe visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits on a couch while a man in a detective outfit gestures toward her. [frame:1]
  • The man leans in close to the woman, smiling. [frame:2]
  • The man is shown in close-up, smiling with a pipe in his mouth. [frame:3]
  • The man continues smiling with the pipe, now in warm lighting. [frame:4]
Seen
couch [frame:1], footstool [frame:1], pipe [frame:3], detective hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: detective humor, miscommunication; style notes: medium shots and close-ups with warm lighting; cartoonish character design

A woman in a yellow dress sits on a couch while a man in a detective outfit speaks to her; he is later shown smiling with a pipe. The transcript includes a woman calling someone 'my hero' and correcting herself to 'Ghost, ma'am.'

“Madame, the case is solved. My hero!” 6:07 · “- Ghost, ma'am.” 6:15 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 6:05 (passage 6:04–6:25); US record: No renewal found

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