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Scrooge · Beat 131 · permalink

Living room

1:13:07–1:13:41 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:241:13:24

Play from 1:13:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 210–210. 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
  • Uncle Scrooge (named at t:73:10): older man, white hair, dark coat visible, audible
  • Fred (named at t:73:10): younger man, partially visible, dark clothing visible, audible
  • unseen, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • Uncle Scrooge stands at a doorway, asking to be let in. [frame:1]
Also said
“Come in!” 73:18 · “Thank you, my dear. A Merry Christmas to you all.” 73:29
Seen
festive decorations [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: warm and reconciliatory; themes: redemption, family, holiday spirit; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, soft lighting on faces, festive decor in background

An older man with white hair, identified as Uncle Scrooge, is welcomed into a room by a younger man named Fred and others who greet him with Christmas wishes. The scene takes place indoors, with festive decorations visible.

“Why, it's Uncle Scrooge. It can't be.” 73:10 · “A merry Christmas to you, uncle.” 73:15 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 1:13:24 (passage 1:13:07–1:13:41); US record: No renewal found

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