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Scrooge · Beat 124 · permalink

Private office

1:09:57–1:10:45 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:10:131:10:13Frame at 1:10:301:10:30Frame at 1:10:391:10:39

Play from 1:09:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 198–200. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, older, wearing top hat and dark coat, holding a cane visible
  • man, younger, wearing patterned robe or dressing gown visible
  • woman, wearing striped dress and apron, holding a bundle visible
  • boy, wearing dark coat, looking up visible
  • older man, balding, wearing dark coat, holding cane visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Also said
“Hey! Hey, mister! Hey! Mister! Hi! We can't carry that to the cratchets. You fool have to have a cab.” 70:26
Seen
top hat, cane, bed, door with snow on it, bundle
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: class disparity, holiday urgency, urban poverty; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes

Two men are shown indoors, one in a top hat and coat, the other in a patterned robe; a woman and boy appear outside a door; an older man with a cane stands in a bedroom. A voice calls out about needing a cab to carry something to the cratchets.

“Ah, that's right.” 70:04 · “A Merry Christmas! Oh!” 70:08 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 1:10:13 (passage 1:09:57–1:10:45); US record: No renewal found

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