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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 15 · permalink

Vehicle interior

2:32–2:48 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:332:33Frame at 2:352:35Frame at 2:412:41Frame at 2:472:47

Play from 2:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 26–29. 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
  • man with dark beard, wearing blue shirt and dark beret visible
  • man with mustache, wearing white shirt visible
Seen happening
  • man in blue shirt and beret shouts while driving [frame:1]
  • rear view of a green and red taxi against a blue sky [frame:2]
  • man in blue shirt and beret looks angry while driving [frame:3]
  • man in white shirt leans out of a black and red taxi [frame:4]
Seen
yellow taxi [frame:1], black and red taxi [frame:4], beret [frame:1], white shirt [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: chase, anger, rivalry; style notes: cartoon animation with bold colors and clear outlines; medium close-ups on drivers, wide shot of vehicle rear; flat lighting

A man in a blue shirt and beret drives a yellow taxi, reacting with anger. Another man in a white shirt leans out of a black and red taxi, which is shown from behind against a sky.

“Why, that double-crossing fair snatcher.” 2:32 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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Frame from Taxi-Turvy (1954) at 2:33 (passage 2:32–2:48); US record: No renewal found

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