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Scrooge · Beat 27 · permalink

Street

18:28–18:43 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:3618:36

Play from 18:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 44–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure in long coat and hat, seen from behind visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A figure walks away down a dim street. [frame:1]
Seen
long coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1], dim street [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: isolation, confrontation; style notes: low-key lighting, rear view of figure, shallow depth of field

A figure in a long coat and hat walks away down a dimly lit street at night. A voice asks what they are doing and accuses them of frightening people.

“What the devil are you doing? Frighten you people out of their wits.” 18:38 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 18:36 (passage 18:28–18:43); US record: No renewal found

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