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Scrooge · Beat 63 · permalink

Living room

36:00–36:21 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; 5 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.

Frame at 36:0236:02Frame at 36:1036:10Frame at 36:1936:19

Play from 36:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 97–99. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in robe, seated, older visible
  • woman in long dress, standing, older visible
  • man in top hat and coat, standing outside visible
  • child on man's shoulders, wearing hat visible
  • man in coat, standing outside visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits beside a fireplace while a woman stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • People exit a building onto steps. [frame:2]
  • A man carries a child on his shoulders outside in snow. [frame:3]
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], Christmas tree [frame:1], top hat [frame:3], snow [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: festive yet somber; themes: family, holiday, social gathering; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costumes

A man in a robe sits beside a fireplace while a woman stands nearby; later, people exit a building into snow. One line of dialogue is spoken during the beat.

“Up if you get tiny, Tim!” 36:03 · “Let's go.” 36:20 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 36:02 (passage 36:00–36:21); US record: No renewal found

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