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Scrooge · Beat 32 · permalink

Private office

22:28–22:47 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 22:3022:30Frame at 22:3622:36Frame at 22:4122:41Frame at 22:4522:45

Play from 22:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 49–52. 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
  • elderly man with white hair, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A door knocker is shown on a textured wall. [frame:1]
  • An elderly man is seen holding a cup in a dim room. [frame:2]
  • The door knocker is shown again on the wall. [frame:3]
  • The elderly man looks up while holding the cup. [frame:4]
Seen
door knocker, cup
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: isolation, aging; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static framing, close-ups on objects and faces

An elderly man with white hair is shown in a dimly lit room, holding a cup and looking around. A door knocker is visible on a textured wall in two frames.

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 22:30 (passage 22:28–22:47); US record: No renewal found

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