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Scrooge · Beat 72 · permalink

Living room

39:28–39:37 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3239:32

Play from 39:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 113–113. 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
  • child-sized, wearing a patterned jacket, visible from the side visible
  • wearing a dark dress and a hat held over their head, standing still visible
  • wearing a light-colored coat and a hat, reaching toward p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A person holds a hat over another person's head while a third reaches toward them. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], dark dress [frame:1], patterned jacket [frame:1], light-colored coat [frame:1], wall with framed picture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or playful, depending on context; themes: domestic interaction, costume play; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

Three figures are in a dimly lit interior; one holds a hat over another's head while a third reaches toward them. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 39:32 (passage 39:28–39:37); US record: No renewal found

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