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Scrooge · Beat 130 · permalink

Living room

1:12:51–1:13:07 Registered 1935

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

Frame at 1:12:541:12:54Frame at 1:12:591:12:59Frame at 1:13:041:13:04

Play from 1:12:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 207–209. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Scrooge (named at t:73:03): older man, white hair, wearing dark coat and bow tie visible, audible
  • man in dark uniform-style jacket, younger, standing near table visible
Seen happening
  • An older man enters through a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A younger man stands near a table, looking toward the entrance. [frame:2]
Also said
“Your Uncle Scrooge.” 73:03 · “I've come to dinner.” 73:05
Seen
doorway, wall sconce, dining table, chandelier, wallpaper with floral pattern
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: surprised and slightly tense; themes: family reunion, unexpected arrival; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal interior decor

An older man enters a room and announces himself as Uncle Scrooge, stating he has come to dinner. The scene takes place indoors, with another man visible in the room.

“bless my soul who's this” 72:56 · “It is I.” 73:01 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 1:12:54 (passage 1:12:51–1:13:07); US record: No renewal found

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