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Scrooge · Beat 58 · permalink

Private office

34:16–34:27 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 34:2034:20Frame at 34:2634:26

Play from 34:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 89–90. 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 with white fur collar, holding a turkey, seated in a decorated room visible
  • older man, wearing light striped shirt, standing in shadow near a doorway visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat holds a turkey in a decorated room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a striped shirt stands in a doorway and speaks. [frame:2]
Seen
{'item': 'turkey', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'fireplace with fire', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'festive decorations', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'striped shirt', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and fragmented; themes: confrontation, holiday setting, unresolved dialogue; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A man in a dark room speaks to someone off-screen while another man in a festive setting holds a turkey. The transcript includes a greeting and a fragmented line.

“Come in!” 34:19 · “And no me, better man.” 34:21 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 34:20 (passage 34:16–34:27); US record: No renewal found

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