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Shuteye Popeye · Beat 42 · permalink

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4:31–4:32 Registered 1952

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 4:314:31

Play from 4:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 60–60. 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 a large, round head, wearing a green and white striped shirt and red shorts, lying on their back. visible
Seen happening
  • A cartoon character lies on the floor as a large splash of white foam erupts from their mouth. [frame:1]
Seen
cartoon character [frame:1], dark jagged object [frame:1], white foam [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: slapstick; themes: physical comedy, exaggerated reaction; style notes: Classic 1950s cartoon animation with bold outlines, flat colors, and exaggerated physical comedy. The framing is a medium shot focused on the character's reaction.

A cartoon character is shown lying on the floor with a large splash of white foam erupting from their mouth. A dark, jagged object with a curved pipe-like extension looms over them.

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 4:31 (passage 4:31–4:32); US record: No renewal found

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