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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 17 · permalink

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2:56–2:58 Registered 1954

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 2:572:57

Play from 2:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 33–33. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A cartoon taxi is airborne. [frame:1]
Seen
cartoon taxi [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: absurd; themes: surrealism, comedy; style notes: Cartoonish, flat color, exaggerated physics, medium shot of vehicle.

A cartoon taxi is shown airborne against a plain background. No people are visible or audible, and no dialogue or on-screen text appears 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 2:57 (passage 2:56–2:58); US record: No renewal found

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