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Shuteye Popeye · Beat 44 · permalink

Bedroom

4:32–4:50 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:394:39Frame at 4:454:45Frame at 4:484:48

Play from 4:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 62–64. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • cartoon character, muscular, wearing a green shirt and diaper, barefoot visible
  • small cartoon figure, wearing a hat and coat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • character p1 crawls under a piece of furniture [frame:1]
  • character p1 lies on the floor with arms outstretched [frame:2]
  • character p2 stands near character p1 who is lying on the floor [frame:3]
Also said
“No more than that stands. No more.” 4:44
Seen
dresser [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], chair [frame:2, frame:3], vase with flowers [frame:3], small figure with hat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic struggle; themes: physical comedy, defeat or exhaustion; style notes: medium shots, flat color, exaggerated cartoon proportions, static camera

A cartoon character in a diaper and green shirt is shown crawling under furniture, then lying on the floor as a small figure approaches. The room contains a dresser, a chair, and a vase on a shelf.

“That's all I can say.” 4:41 · “stands against” 4:43 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 4:39 (passage 4:32–4:50); US record: No renewal found

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