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Steamboat Willie · Beat 3 · permalink

Kitchen

1:45–7:41 Registered 1928

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 4:434:43

Play from 1:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 2–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon mouse, wearing shorts, standing visible
  • cartoon duck, beak visible visible
Seen happening
  • Mickey Mouse stirs a pot while a duck watches. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 3:09 · “Captain.” 7:37
Seen
pots and pans hanging on wall [frame:1], barrel [frame:1], pot on stand [frame:1], duck [frame:1], Mickey Mouse [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful and chaotic; themes: cartoon slapstick, kitchen chaos; style notes: black-and-white animation, medium shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting

Mickey Mouse is visible in a kitchen, interacting with a pot and a duck. A bell rings and a character whistles, with exclamations of 'Oh, my God' heard. No names are spoken that identify the characters.

“I'm going to go.” 2:00 · “Oh!” 3:09 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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Frame from Steamboat Willie (1928) at 4:43 (passage 1:45–7:41); US record: Copyright term expired

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