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Scrooge · Beat 85 · permalink

Living room

45:38–47:42 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; 3 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 46:4046:40

Play from 45:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 42 · shots 133–133. 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 in dark coat, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman in light dress, mid-adult, fair hair visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, mid-adult, standing behind p1 visible
Also said
“I'm sorry for him.” 47:00 · “He's taken it into his head to dislike us and he won't even come and dine with us.” 47:03
Seen
Christmas tree, dining table with food and utensils, small house-shaped decoration, chandelier
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: festive but critical; themes: family gathering, social critique, holiday tradition; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, Christmas decor

A man in a dark coat stands at a table with a woman in a light dress and another man behind him; they are in a decorated room with a Christmas tree. The dialogue discusses Scrooge’s wealth and behavior, and a riddle game begins.

“Merry Christmas!” 46:00 · “And he said Christmas was a humbug.” 46:25 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 46:40 (passage 45:38–47:42); US record: No renewal found

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