Street
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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 20–23. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- large man, dark hair and beard, wearing blue shirt and black pants visible
- small man, wearing white shirt, perched on taxi roof visible
- woman, dark hair in bun, red top and dark skirt, waving white handkerchief visible, audible
- taxi driver, visible only as silhouette inside cab visible
- Seen happening
- A large man gestures toward a red taxi while a small man sits on its roof. [frame:1]
- The woman waves a handkerchief while standing on the sidewalk. [frame:2]
- The woman enters the red taxi, which then drives away. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “23 Skidoo Street, driver.” 2:02
- Seen
- red taxi [frame:1], white handkerchief [frame:2], sidewalk [frame:4], building facade [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and comedic; themes: urban transportation, comedy of manners, character-driven humor; style notes: cartoon animation with exaggerated character proportions and bright, flat colors; medium and long shots used to show action and setting
A woman flags down a red taxi on a city street while a large man in blue and a small man on the taxi roof react. The woman enters the taxi, which then drives away.
“That Rube was a healthy dipper.” 1:52 · “Yoo-hoo! Taxi! Well, I'm getting this fair.” 1:55 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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