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Scrooge · Beat 94 · permalink

Living room

57:19–58:29 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5457:54

Play from 57:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 144–144. 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, seen in silhouette visible, audible
  • woman in light head covering and shawl, visible in profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand close together in a dim room, speaking. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 58:04 · “My little... little Trump.” 58:10
Seen
{'item': 'silhouetted figures', 'frame': 1}, {'item': "woman's head covering and shawl", 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and emotionally charged; themes: grief, family, memory; style notes: low-key lighting, silhouetted figures, intimate framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior, speaking about a grave site and Sunday visits. The man mentions seeing where 'tiny Tim' is to rest and promises walks there, while the woman reacts emotionally.

“I've seen where our tiny Tim is to rest.” 57:44 · “I promised him that we would walk there for Sundays.” 58:00 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 57:54 (passage 57:19–58:29); US record: No renewal found

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