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Scrooge · Beat 22 · permalink

Kitchen

16:03–16:17 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0416:04Frame at 16:0716:07Frame at 16:1016:10Frame at 16:1416:14

Play from 16:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 35–38. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • chef in white hat and apron, holding a bottle and glass visible, audible
  • chef in white hat and apron, roasting meat visible
  • chef in white hat and apron, holding a tray visible
  • silhouetted figures behind bars visible
Seen happening
  • A chef tends to meat roasting on a spit. [frame:1]
  • Two chefs stand among bottles; one holds a bottle and glass. [frame:2]
  • A chef holds a tray and gestures toward a large wheel mechanism. [frame:3]
  • Silhouetted figures are seen behind bars. [frame:4]
Seen
roasting spit, bottles, tray, bars
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: busy and slightly chaotic; themes: culinary activity, confinement; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, dramatic lighting emphasizing action

A kitchen scene shows chefs preparing food and drink, followed by a view of people behind bars. One chef is audible speaking at 16:04.

“Hi, hi. Don't stop that noise. My lord.” 16:04 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 16:04 (passage 16:03–16:17); US record: No renewal found

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