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Scrooge · Beat 31 · permalink

Private office

20:47–22:28 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; 1 name 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 21:3821:38

Play from 20:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 48–48. 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
  • older man, wearing dark coat and glasses, holding small object visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man stands in doorway holding object [frame:1]
Also said
“All right.” 21:17 · “I'm going to go.” 22:18
Seen
dark coat [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], small object in hand [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, somber; themes: isolation, decision to depart, mystery; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, shadowed background, period costume

A man in a dark coat stands in a dim doorway, holding a small object. He speaks briefly before announcing he is leaving.

“Oh.” 20:49 · “Ah, a murder.” 20:52 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 21:38 (passage 20:47–22:28); US record: No renewal found

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