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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 32 · permalink

Railroad crossing

4:13–4:33 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; 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 4:154:15Frame at 4:204:20Frame at 4:284:28Frame at 4:324:32

Play from 4:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 21 · shots 57–64. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad crossing (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon man, large build, wearing blue shirt, dark hair, holding a stop sign visible
  • cartoon man, balding, wearing white shirt, smoking a pipe, sitting in vehicle visible
  • cartoon woman, dark hair, wearing red dress, sitting in vehicle visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a blue shirt holds up a stop sign at a railroad crossing. [frame:3]
  • A man and a woman inside a vehicle react to the stop sign. [frame:4]
Seen
stop sign, railroad tracks, vehicle interior, pipe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspicious and tense; themes: suspicion, interruption, rural setting; style notes: classic 2D animation with bright colors, wide outdoor shots, and medium close-ups inside a vehicle

A character in a blue shirt holds a stop sign near railroad tracks while another character in a vehicle reacts. The setting is an open, rural landscape with hills and a tree.

“Hmm, there's something fishy going on around here. I've had enough!” 4:27 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 4:15 (passage 4:13–4:33); US record: No renewal found

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