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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; 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.
Play from 34:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 91–92. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- Time of day
- night evidence: frame:1
- Period
- 19th century evidence: t:34:38
- People
- older man, wearing a nightshirt, disheveled hair, hands clasped in prayer or fear visible, audible
- Ghost of Christmas Present (named at t:34:27): ghostly figure, large, wearing a dark robe with white fur trim, seated near a fire visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The ghost sits near a fire while the man stands before it, hands clasped. [frame:1]
- The man is shown in close-up, looking upward with a fearful expression. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “More! than 1800.” 35:10 · “Already I have been forth under compulsion and learned a lesson which is working now. If you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.” 35:21
- Seen
- fur-trimmed robe [frame:1], fire [frame:1], nightshirt [frame:2], foliage [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and reverent; themes: supernatural encounter, moral instruction, familial legacy; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium and close-up shots emphasizing facial expressions, static camera framing
A ghost in a fur-trimmed robe introduces itself to a man in a nightshirt; the man, visibly distressed, agrees to be led. The ghost claims to be young and part of a vast family of over 1800 brothers.
“I am the ghost of Christmas present.” 34:27 · “You have never seen the like of me before. Never? I've never walked forth with the younger members of my family. Meaning, I am very young. My elder brothers, born in those later years.” 34:38 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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