Private office
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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:15:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 221–224. 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, frame:2, frame:3
- People
- Bob (named at t:75:54): older man, white hair, wearing dark coat, holding quill pen visible, audible
- Scrooge (named at t:75:54): man with glasses, dark suit, bow tie, seated at desk visible, audible
- man in dark coat, smiling, holding book, surrounded by crowd visible
- crowd of people in winter clothing, including children visible
- Mentioned
- The Lord's Prayer is mentioned in the transcript. [t:76:58]
- Also said
- “My good fellow and I have given you for many years.” 76:23 · “Go on now. Go on! Merry Christmas to all the world. Happy New Year to everyone. God bless us all. God bless us everyone.” 76:28
- Seen
- quill pen, candlestick, desk, bookshelf, book
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: redemptive and festive; themes: redemption, generosity, Christmas spirit; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, studio lighting
A man in a dark coat speaks to another man at a desk; later, the first man is seen among a crowd of people. The transcript includes dialogue about raising a salary and wishing a Merry Christmas.
“Therefore, I'm going to raise your salary. Sir, you must be joking. There's no more serious in all my life, Bob. I'm going to raise your salary, and as with Diney Thin, I'll be a second father to you.” 75:54 · “A merry Christmas.” 76:20 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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