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Scrooge · Beat 37 · permalink

Private office

23:24–23:49 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; 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 23:3623:36

Play from 23:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 57–57. 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, white hair, wearing dark coat and gloves visible, audible
Seen happening
  • man holds dark object and speaks [frame:1]
Seen
dark object held by man [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, urgency; style notes: close-up shot, high contrast lighting, black-and-white film

An elderly man in dark clothing holds a dark object while speaking. The setting appears to be dimly lit indoors, with patterned wallpaper visible behind him.

“Come on.” 23:45 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 23:36 (passage 23:24–23:49); US record: No renewal found

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