Private office
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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 28:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 67–70. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Mr. Scrooge (named at t:29:05): man in dark coat, older, stern expression visible, audible
- woman in bonnet and dark dress, younger, pleading expression visible, audible
- woman in fur coat and hat, middle-aged, concerned expression visible
- Seen happening
- Mr. Scrooge turns away from the group and walks toward a desk. [frame:2]
- A woman in a fur coat looks on with concern. [frame:3]
- Mr. Scrooge sits at a desk while the two women stand nearby. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “You can't do this.” 29:12 · “You can't be so unjust. Give us a little of our time. A week. Please.” 29:13
- Seen
- candlesticks, desk, fur coat, bonnet
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, pleading, authority vs. vulnerability; style notes: static framing, high contrast lighting, medium close-ups emphasizing facial expressions
A man in a dark coat speaks to two others in a dim room; one woman pleads with him while another woman in a fur coat looks on. The man turns away and sits at a desk as the others remain standing.
“You don't mean... sell us up? That is precisely what I do mean.” 28:56 · “I couldn't work in the hospital. Mr. Scrooge, I beg of you. Good day.” 29:05 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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