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Scrooge · Beat 101 · permalink

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1:03:40–1:03:55 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:471:03:47

Play from 1:03:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 153–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

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Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dark, ambiguous; style notes: extreme low-key lighting, minimal composition, high contrast between black and a single bright patch

A single dark frame shows a small, bright, irregular patch in the upper right corner. No people, objects, or text are visible, and no events occur.

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 Scrooge (1935) at 1:03:47 (passage 1:03:40–1:03:55); US record: No renewal found

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