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Scrooge · Beat 73 · permalink

Living room

39:37–40:31 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; 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 40:0440:04

Play from 39:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 114–114. 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
  • older man with disheveled hair, wearing dark coat visible
  • young boy with light hair, wearing collared shirt visible
  • older woman wearing bonnet and shawl, standing visible
Seen happening
  • The woman serves food from a platter at the table. [frame:1]
Also said
“Delicious.” 40:16 · “That's the best goose we ever had, Mother. Yes, indeed. Oh, yes. Oh, I've eaten too much. And even now, we haven't eaten at all.” 40:20
Seen
platter with food [frame:1], candlesticks [frame:1], dining table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: warm and familial; themes: family, gratitude, holiday meal; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, soft lighting focused on the table, intimate framing

A family gathers around a table as a woman serves food; a man and a boy react with delight to the meal. The dialogue includes thanks, praise for the food, and a comment about overeating despite not having started.

“For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful.” 39:46 · “...with the mashed potatoes and the apple sauce. It will, I am sure, present a delightful combination that we shall remember until our dying day. Yay!” 40:00 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 40:04 (passage 39:37–40:31); US record: No renewal found

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