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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 3 · permalink

Street

0:39–0:59 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names 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 0:410:41Frame at 0:520:52Frame at 0:560:56Frame at 0:580:58

Play from 0:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 2 · shots 4–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon man in white shirt, sitting in taxi, waving arm visible
  • cartoon taxi driver in blue shirt and cap, steering wheel visible
  • cartoon man in black suit and bow tie, carrying briefcase, waving hand visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit waves at a taxi on the street. [frame:3]
  • The taxi driver looks toward the hailing man. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, taxi!” 0:55 · “Coming right up, pup.” 0:57
Seen
taxi stand sign, red taxi, briefcase, blue car parked in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: urban transportation, comedy of manners, hailing a cab; style notes: cartoon animation with bright colors, exaggerated character expressions, and medium close-up framing

A cartoon taxi driver interacts with a man in a suit who flags him down on a city street. The driver responds to the hail while another man is already in the taxi.

“This buddy's taken, bub.” 0:48 · “Taxi!” 0:53 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 0:41 (passage 0:39–0:59); US record: No renewal found

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