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Penny Serenade · Beat 12 · permalink

Shop

3:33–4:12 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:353:35Frame at 3:443:44Frame at 3:543:54Frame at 4:104:10

Play from 3:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 14–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curled hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a bow at the neck visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora visible
  • woman in dark patterned dress visible
  • man in suit and hat, walking outside visible
  • man in suit and hat, walking outside visible
Seen happening
  • A woman places a record on a turntable. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns away from the turntable. [frame:2]
  • Pedestrians and a dog walk past a storefront window. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit stands at a record display while a woman looks at records. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, the record department. They're right here.” 4:08
Seen
record player, records, fedora, dog
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and nostalgic; themes: romance, music, everyday life in a shop; style notes: black-and-white studio lighting, medium shots, period costumes, interior shop setting with window display

A woman handles a record player in a shop while a man approaches a record display. A street scene with pedestrians and a dog is shown outside. The transcript includes romantic lyrics and a line directing someone to the record department.

“You're like a plaintive melody that never lets me free, for I'm content.” 3:35 · “The angels must have sent you and they met you just for me. What can I do for you?” 3:55 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 3:35 (passage 3:33–4:12); US record: No renewal found

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