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Scrooge · Beat 23 · permalink

Dining hall

16:17–17:45 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 17:0117:01

Play from 16:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 12 · shots 39–39. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_hall (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in formal 19th-century attire, standing at head of table visible, audible
  • seated guests in formal wear, including women with updos and men in tailcoats visible
  • man in dark coat seated at table, reaching for decanter visible
Seen happening
  • Guests are seated at a long table with silverware and decanters. [frame:1]
Also said
“Her most gracious Majesty.” 17:11 · “For they are praise and free, From here on over free,” 17:19
Seen
long dining table [frame:1], candlesticks [frame:1], glass decanters [frame:1], silver cutlery [frame:1], formal tableware [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and ceremonial; themes: social hierarchy, royal loyalty, formal dining ritual; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting emphasizing table setting and speaker, period costume detail

A formal banquet scene unfolds with a speaker addressing guests at a long table; the transcript indicates a toast to the Lord Mayor and the Queen. No names are spoken that identify individuals beyond their titles, and the setting is an opulent dining hall with candlelight and formal attire.

“Call silence for the loyal toast.” 16:40 · “Ladies and gentlemen...” 16:53 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 17:01 (passage 16:17–17:45); US record: No renewal found

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