Public Reel

Penny Serenade · Beat 125 · permalink

Private office

45:42–46:03 Registered 1941

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

Frame at 45:4545:45Frame at 45:5545:55

Play from 45:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 244–245. 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 in tuxedo with bow tie, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman in dark coat and wide-brimmed hat, light-colored blouse, medium build visible
  • woman seated at desk, dark hair styled up, wearing dark jacket over white collared shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman stand together in formal wear while a seated woman speaks. [frame:1]
Also said
“At the moment, we haven't any children available at all.” 45:56 · “There's a long waiting list. There are three applications for every child.” 45:59
Seen
tuxedo with bow tie, wide-brimmed hat, desk with papers, dark jacket over white collared shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and bureaucratic; themes: adoption, bureaucracy, waiting, parenthood; style notes: medium shots, formal framing, studio lighting, black-and-white film aesthetic

A man and woman stand together in formal attire while a seated woman speaks at a desk. The dialogue indicates they are discussing child adoption and the scarcity of available children.

“Anyway, when they're two years old, they're more or less housebroken then, aren't they?” 45:43 · “Well, not always.” 45:48 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Penny Serenade (1941) at 45:45 (passage 45:42–46:03); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/penny_serenade/b125.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite