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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 24 · permalink

Parking lot

3:25–3:28 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:263:26Frame at 3:283:28

Play from 3:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 40–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
parking lot (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit or coat, medium build, walking visible
Seen happening
  • man walks across paved lot [frame:1]
  • man continues walking, now holding a bundle [frame:2]
Seen
dark car, blue car, bundle or package
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense; themes: movement, urban space; style notes: high-angle shot, wide framing, flat lighting, static camera

A man in dark clothing walks across a paved lot, passing between two parked cars. He is visible in two frames at 206s and 208s, and a line at 3:26 says 'Oh, oh.'

“Oh, oh.” 3:26 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 3:26 (passage 3:25–3:28); US record: No renewal found

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