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Scrooge · Beat 70 · permalink

Living room

39:14–39:26 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:1839:18Frame at 39:2339:23

Play from 39:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 110–111. 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, frame:2
People
  • man with curly hair, wearing dark coat, seen in profile visible
  • Bob (named at t:39:21): woman wearing bonnet and patterned shawl, seen in profile visible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown in profile, looking downward. [frame:1]
  • A woman is shown in profile, looking toward the left. [frame:2]
Also said
“I wish I could believe you, Bob.” 39:21 · “But I'm afraid.” 39:24
Seen
bonnet, shawl, dark coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: doubt, fear, moral decline; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A man and a woman are shown in separate close-ups during a conversation about someone growing stronger and heartless. The woman expresses doubt and fear while addressing someone named Bob.

“But he's growing stronger.” 39:15 · “Yes. Growing strong and heartless.” 39:17 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 39:18 (passage 39:14–39:26); US record: No renewal found

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