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Scrooge · Beat 66 · permalink

Living room

37:43–37:53 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 37:4837:48

Play from 37:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 105–105. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, mid-adult, thin build, hand on head visible
  • woman in light dress, mid-adult, standing visible
  • man in dark coat, mid-adult, holding a child visible
  • child, small, held by p3 visible
  • man in dark coat, young adult, standing right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat gestures with his hand on his head while speaking. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a light dress and others stand listening in a room. [frame:1]
Also said
“Not coming!” 37:51
Seen
dark coat [frame:1], light dress [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: absence, family gathering, disappointment; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in a dark coat gestures while speaking to a group in a dimly lit room; a woman in a light dress and another man stand nearby. The transcript includes a question about someone's absence and a reply confirming they are not coming.

“And where's our mouth, huh?” 37:44 · “She's, um, not coming.” 37:47 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 37:48 (passage 37:43–37:53); US record: No renewal found

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