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Penny Serenade · Beat 1 · permalink

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0:00–1:14 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 0:370:37

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • not visible audible
Seen
credit screen
On screen
Associate Producer FRED GUIOL Director of Photography JOSEPH WALKER, A.S.C. Film Editor OTTO MEYER Art Director LIONEL BANKS Assistant Director GENE ANDERSON Music by W. FRANKE HARLING Musical Director M. W. STOLOFF Western Electric Microphonic Recording APPROVED CERTIFICATE NO. 8000
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: film credits, production acknowledgment; style notes: static frame, black-and-white, studio typography, formal credit layout

The beat shows a credit screen from the film PENNY SERENADE (1941) with names of crew members and production roles. A voice says 'You were meant for me' and 'Don't play that, Uncle Jack' during the credit display.

“You were meant for me.” 1:06 · “Don't play that, Uncle Jack.” 1:13 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 Penny Serenade (1941) at 0:37 (passage 0:00–1:14); US record: No renewal found

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