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Penny Serenade · Beat 113 · permalink

Living room

40:40–40:44 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:4240:42

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 216–216. 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
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a patterned blouse and dark jacket, seated at a table visible
  • man, seen from back, wearing a dark suit jacket, seated across from p1 visible
Seen
{'item': 'dining table with plates and cutlery', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'shelves with glassware and decorative objects', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, conversational; themes: domestic life, interpersonal dialogue; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, soft studio lighting, focused on character interaction

A woman sits at a table with a man whose back is to the camera; she appears to be speaking or reacting. The setting is an interior room with shelves and tableware visible.

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 40:42 (passage 40:40–40:44); US record: No renewal found

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