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4:19–4:21 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:204:20

Play from 4:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 15–15. 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
Seen happening
  • A cartoon bird stumbles or falls near a large cylindrical object. [frame:1]
Seen
cartoon bird, cylindrical object
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic or comedic; style notes: stylized 1940s animation with bold outlines and flat color; medium close-up on the bird; dramatic lighting with strong shadows

A cartoon bird with dark feathers and a yellow beak is shown mid-fall or stumble near a large cylindrical object. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible in this beat.

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 Superman (1941) at 4:20 (passage 4:19–4:21); US record: No renewal found

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