Vehicle interior
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
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Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- unseen, only audible audible
- Also said
- “Ah!” 0:54 · “Come on.” 1:03
- Seen
- steamboat smokestacks
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful; themes: mechanical whimsy, sound-driven action; style notes: black-and-white animation with exaggerated cartoon physics; static medium shot of machinery; high-contrast lighting
A cartoon steamboat with three smokestacks emits smoke; a voice urges action with repeated 'Come on' phrases. No named characters appear, and the setting is a boat's deck under an overcast sky.
“Come on.” 0:47 · “Oh, yeah!” 0:48 automatic transcript, may be wrong
The record
Copyright term expired The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01. 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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