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Scrooge · Beat 57 · permalink

Bedroom

33:16–34:16 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:2333:23Frame at 33:5333:53

Play from 33:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 31 · shots 87–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: t:33:44
People
  • older man, wearing dark coat and vest in first frame, light nightshirt in second visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a dimly lit room, speaking to someone off-screen. [frame:1]
  • The same man is lying in bed, looking distressed. [frame:2]
Also said
“Do not blame me. Take me back!” 33:27 · “12 o'clock. I know it is.” 33:44
Seen
vase with flowers, framed picture, bed
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and remorseful; themes: redemption, regret, supernatural encounter; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on the character, use of shadow to emphasize emotional weight

A man in a dark room speaks to a spirit, pleading to be taken back after hearing a clock strike 12. He is later seen lying in bed, appearing distressed.

“Spirit, I cannot bear it.” 33:16 · “Halt me no more! I told you these were the shadows of the things that have been, that they are what they are.” 33:18 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 33:23 (passage 33:16–34:16); US record: No renewal found

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