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Scrooge · Beat 98 · permalink

Living room

1:00:17–1:01:55 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:061:01:06

Play from 1:00:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 148–148. 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, dark clothing, holding a candle, standing visible, audible
  • woman, dark dress with lace collar, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a candle and speaks to a seated woman. [frame:1]
Also said
“It almost seemed... as though he had known our tiny Tim.” 61:07 · “And forget poor tiny tins.” 61:40
Seen
candle [frame:1], candle holder [frame:1], dark dress with lace collar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and reflective; themes: family, gratitude, memory, compassion; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, tight two-shot, candle as key light source

A man and a woman are shown in a dimly lit interior; the man holds a candle and speaks while the woman listens. The transcript reveals dialogue about Tiny Tim, Mr. Scrooge’s nephew, and the Cratchit family’s gratitude and resolve not to quarrel.

“Tiny Tim.” 60:18 · “I'm heartily sorry for you, Mr. Cratchit.” 60:37 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 1:01:06 (passage 1:00:17–1:01:55); US record: No renewal found

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