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Shuteye Popeye · Beat 28 · permalink

Bedroom

3:35–3:53 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 3:373:37Frame at 3:423:42Frame at 3:493:49Frame at 3:523:52

Play from 3:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 43–46. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon man with bald head, green shirt, pink pants, barefoot visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A character enters a bedroom through an open door. [frame:2]
  • The character sets a mousetrap with bait. [frame:3]
  • The character reacts with pain after the mousetrap snaps shut on his finger. [frame:4]
Seen
mousetrap [frame:3], bed [frame:2], dresser [frame:1], mirror [frame:1], door [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comical; themes: slapstick, mistaken intent; style notes: mid-century cartoon style with flat colors, simple props, and exaggerated expressions; medium and close shots dominate.

A character enters a bedroom, sets a mousetrap, and reacts to it. The room contains a bed, dresser, and mirror.

“I hates to do this, but I has to get some sugar.” 3:36 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 Shuteye Popeye (1952) at 3:37 (passage 3:35–3:53); US record: No renewal found

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