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Beat 91

49:40–50:28 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:0450:04

Play from 49:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 140–140. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

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  • unseen, only audible audible
Also said
“Why am I not there?” 49:48
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: uncertain, disoriented; themes: displacement, identity, confusion; style notes: extremely low-key lighting, near-total darkness, minimal visible detail, suggests a subjective or dreamlike state

A dark, indistinct interior is shown while a voice expresses confusion about not being in a customary place. No identifiable people, objects, or text are visible in the single frame.

“I do not see myself in my accustomed place.” 49:41 · “Where am I?” 49:46 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 50:04 (passage 49:40–50:28); US record: No renewal found

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