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Scrooge · Beat 67 · permalink

Living room

37:53–38:12 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:0038:00Frame at 38:1038:10

Play from 37:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 106–107. 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, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing dark coat visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, wearing light dress and shawl visible
  • woman, older, wearing bonnet and shawl visible
  • child, young, wearing dark dress visible
Seen happening
  • A woman embraces a man while others watch. [frame:1]
  • The man is led toward a window by a woman. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, you're...” 38:04 · “Oh, my God.” 38:09
Seen
window, shawl, bonnet
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: emotional, tense; themes: family reunion, surprise, Christmas; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up framing, high-contrast lighting emphasizing faces

A man is embraced by a woman while others look on; a second frame shows him being led toward a window. The transcript includes lines spoken during this interaction, including an exclamation of surprise.

“Not coming upon Christmas Day.” 37:55 · “Yes, Father, may I? Here I am.” 37:59 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 38:00 (passage 37:53–38:12); US record: No renewal found

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