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Scrooge · Beat 127 · permalink

Street

1:11:13–1:12:04 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:11:321:11:32Frame at 1:11:571:11:57

Play from 1:11:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 203–204. 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
People
  • man in top hat and dark coat, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in top hat and light coat, visible in frame 1 visible
  • Mr. Scrooge (named at t:71:31): older man in top hat and dark coat, holding cane, visible in frame 1 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, visible in frame 2 visible
  • woman in light dress, visible in frame 2 visible
  • woman seated in light dress, visible in frame 2 visible
  • man in dark suit, visible in frame 2 visible
Seen happening
  • Three men in top hats stand together outdoors and speak. [frame:1]
  • A group of people are gathered indoors around tables with drinks. [frame:2]
Also said
“Who's that won't come and dine with you? Uncle Scrooge!” 71:50
Seen
top hats [frame:1], cane [frame:1], tables with drinks [frame:2], formal attire [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense in the outdoor scene, convivial indoors; themes: social obligation, holiday gatherings, wealth and generosity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes

Three men in top hats speak outdoors; one identifies himself as Mr. Scrooge. The scene cuts to a crowded indoor gathering where people are seated and standing around tables with drinks. A line mentions 'Uncle Scrooge' will not come to dinner.

“Ah, good day, gentlemen. Ah, Merry Christmas to you.” 71:14 · “Oh, bless my soul, my dear Mr. Scroogey. You're serious.” 71:31 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 1:11:32 (passage 1:11:13–1:12:04); US record: No renewal found

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