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Scrooge · Beat 121 · permalink

Street

1:09:19–1:09:46 Registered 1935

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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:191:09:19Frame at 1:09:241:09:24Frame at 1:09:311:09:31Frame at 1:09:401:09:40

Play from 1:09:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 192–195. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man wearing a top hat and dark coat, seen from behind or side visible
  • man with mustache, wearing vest and white shirt, seen at window and then outside visible
  • boy in dark coat, standing beside p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat stands at a snowy window and speaks. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest appears at the window, listening. [frame:2]
  • The man in the top hat turns away from the window. [frame:3]
  • The man in the vest and a boy stand together outside the building. [frame:4]
Also said
“The big one, I mean. Now!” 69:24 · “What is it? What's to do? I want that big turkey of yours. Bring it round to my place if much. My friend will show you the way.” 69:28
Seen
top hat, snow-covered window, vest, boy's coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and festive; themes: holiday commerce, social interaction in winter; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a top hat speaks to someone inside a building through a snowy window; another man in a vest appears at the window and later stands outside with a boy. The dialogue indicates a request for a large turkey to be delivered.

“Merry Christmas!” 69:19 · “Have you sold that price turkey of yours yet?” 69:21 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 Scrooge (1935) at 1:09:19 (passage 1:09:19–1:09:46); US record: No renewal found

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