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Penny Serenade · Beat 100 · permalink

Private office

36:59–37:18 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0337:03Frame at 37:0937:09Frame at 37:1537:15

Play from 36:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 189–191. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing a dark hat and coat, opening a door visible
  • woman, wearing a dark coat and hat, standing near the door visible, audible
  • man, wearing a hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man opens a door. [frame:1]
  • The group stands near the door, preparing to leave. [frame:3]
Seen
door, hat, coat, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or hurried; themes: departure, interpersonal tension; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, black-and-white, period costumes

A man in a hat and coat opens a door while a woman in a dark coat and hat stands nearby; another man in a hat is visible behind her. The woman speaks, and the group appears to be preparing to leave a room.

“I'm going to go.” 37:04 · “Come on.” 37:16 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 37:03 (passage 36:59–37:18); US record: No renewal found

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