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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 20 · permalink

Vehicle interior

3:09–3:11 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 3:103:10

Play from 3:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 36–36. 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
  • cartoon man with black hair, white shirt, large nose, smiling visible
  • cartoon man with beard, wearing blue shirt, seated in back visible
Seen
taxi, steering wheel
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: transportation, comedy; style notes: cartoon animation, bright colors, medium close-up framing

A cartoon taxi driver is visible inside a vehicle, holding a steering wheel, with a passenger in the back. The scene is set during the day, as indicated by the bright exterior visible through the window.

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 3:10 (passage 3:09–3:11); US record: No renewal found

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