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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 34 · permalink

Field

4:50–4:57 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:544:54

Play from 4:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 67–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon man, bald, wearing a white shirt, kneeling visible
Seen happening
  • A cartoon man drinks from a spinach can spout while kneeling in a puddle. [frame:1]
Seen
spinach can [frame:1], puddle [frame:1], spout [frame:1]
On screen
SPINACH
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: absurd and comedic; themes: cartoon logic, food as power source, absurdity; style notes: flat color animation, medium shot, static framing, exaggerated cartoon proportions, stylized background

A cartoon man in a white shirt is kneeling in a dark puddle on green grass, drinking from a yellow spout attached to a large can labeled 'SPINACH'. The sky is purple and pink, suggesting dusk or dawn, but no clock or dialogue confirms the time.

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 4:54 (passage 4:50–4:57); US record: No renewal found

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