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Scrooge · Beat 83 · permalink

Living room

44:26–44:50 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2744:27Frame at 44:4044:40

Play from 44:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 129–130. 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, wearing dark suit, standing visible
  • Tiny Tim (named at t:44:26): child, young, wearing plaid shirt, seated, holding crutch visible, audible
  • woman, adult, seated, wearing patterned dress visible
  • child, young, seated, wearing light-colored dress visible
  • child, young, seated, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands among a group seated in a room. [frame:1]
  • Tiny Tim is shown seated, holding a crutch, singing. [frame:2]
Also said
“What shall I sing? Happy Heavenly. Yes, happy Heavenly. Happy Heavenly.” 44:31 · “The herald angels see him” 44:36
Seen
crutch [frame:2], fireplace [frame:1], jars on mantel [frame:1], chairs [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and reverent; themes: family gathering, Christmas tradition, childhood innocence; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, focused on group interaction and child's expression

A man stands among a seated group in a dimly lit room as a child sings a Christmas carol. The child, seated and holding a crutch, is prompted to sing and begins a verse about herald angels and the newborn king.

“And now, tiny Tim will sing to us.” 44:26 · “Yes, honey. Do, do, do.” 44:29 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 44:27 (passage 44:26–44:50); US record: No renewal found

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