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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 13 · permalink

Taxi stand

2:11–2:15 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:132:13

Play from 2:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 24–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
taxi stand (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon driver, wearing a cap, visible from chest up inside the taxi visible
  • cartoon passenger, dark hair, leaning out of the taxi window visible
Seen
taxi cab [frame:1], taxi stand sign [frame:1], parked cars [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: urban transport, comedy; style notes: cartoon animation with flat colors and simple lines; medium shot framing the taxi and sign

A cartoon taxi cab is parked at a taxi stand with a driver visible inside and a passenger leaning out the window. No dialogue or on-screen text is present 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 Taxi-Turvy (1954) at 2:13 (passage 2:11–2:15); US record: No renewal found

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