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Scrooge · Beat 135 · permalink

Private office

1:14:16–1:14:52 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; 4 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 1:14:341:14:34

Play from 1:14:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 214–214. 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 in plaid jacket, mid-adult, average build visible
  • woman in dark dress, mid-adult, visible in background visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, mid-adult, standing near desk visible
  • Bob (named at t:74:18): unspecified person, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a plaid jacket moves quickly through a room while others look on. [frame:1]
Also said
“So I did. So I did.” 74:19
Seen
desk [frame:1], window [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: hurried and slightly tense; themes: punctuality, workplace obligation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static camera, high contrast lighting

A man in a plaid jacket is seen indoors, moving quickly as others react. A voice mentions someone being late for the office and nearly nine o'clock.

“He's late for the office, Bob.” 74:18 · “It's nearly nine o'clock. You promised Mr. Scrooge you'll be earlier than usual this morning.” 74:19 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 1:14:34 (passage 1:14:16–1:14:52); US record: No renewal found

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