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Scrooge · Beat 74 · permalink

Kitchen

40:31–41:17 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:3440:34Frame at 40:5840:58

Play from 40:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 115–116. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman wearing a headscarf and shawl, seated at a table visible, audible
  • child or young person with braided hair, seated at table visible
  • man or boy holding a large bowl, standing near table visible
  • person partially visible behind p1, possibly another child visible
Also said
“Pray, heaven, all will be well.” 40:57 · “I'll go and fetch it. Let me come and help you, Mother. You shall, my darling. Allow me, buddy. Allow me, buddy. Come on, guys. Allow me, buddy. I'll pay you, buddy. I'll pay you, buddy. I'll pay you, buddy. I'll pay you, buddy. You know, I'm anxious about that pudding.” 40:59
Seen
dining table [frame:2], large bowl [frame:2], bottle [frame:2], window with bars [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anxious and domestic; themes: domestic tension, holiday anticipation, family ritual; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, dim lighting with strong contrast, focused on group interaction at a table

A group of people gather around a table in a dimly lit room as one person expresses anxiety over a pudding. Someone offers to fetch the pudding while others volunteer to help, repeating phrases like 'Allow me, buddy' and 'I'll pay you, buddy.'

“You laugh. Laugh? I envy them.” 40:32 · “Come on, my dear. My dear, regarding the momentous question, pudding. Pudding! Pudding! Pudding! Pudding! Pudding! Pudding! Pudding!” 40:38 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 40:34 (passage 40:31–41:17); US record: No renewal found

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