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Taxi-Turvy · Beat 36 · permalink

Field

4:58–5:37 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:594:59Frame at 5:165:16Frame at 5:285:28Frame at 5:365:36

Play from 4:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 69–77. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cartoon character with orange skin, white shirt, black hat with blue feather, holding a hammer, partially buried in dirt visible
  • cartoon character in red shirt and black pants, flying through the air visible
  • cartoon character in blue shirt and black pants, flying through the air visible
  • cartoon character in red shirt, visible from behind on a rooftop visible
  • unspecified, based on voice audible
Seen happening
  • A red vehicle is airborne over a character in a hole. [frame:1]
  • A character with a hammer is partially buried in dirt. [frame:2]
  • Two characters are flying through the sky. [frame:3]
  • A character is on a rooftop. [frame:4]
Seen
red vehicle [frame:1], hammer [frame:2], dirt hole [frame:2], rooftop [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: slapstick; themes: physical comedy, cartoon violence; style notes: cartoon animation, exaggerated scale, bright outdoor lighting

A red vehicle is airborne over a cartoon character in a hole; two characters are shown flying through the sky; a character is seen on a rooftop. A voice says 'You ain't eatin' no spinach in this picture.'

“Oh, no.” 4:58 · “You ain't eatin' no spinach in this picture.” 5:00 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 4:59 (passage 4:58–5:37); US record: No renewal found

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