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Penny Serenade · Beat 135 · permalink

Shop

49:34–49:47 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4049:40

Play from 49:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 263–263. 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
  • man wearing a dark coat, seen from behind visible
  • person behind counter, partially visible visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands at a counter in a shop. [frame:1]
Seen
counter [frame:1], coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot, black and white, interior lighting, static camera

A man in a coat stands at a counter in an interior setting while a voice speaks off-screen. The transcript includes an apology and a comment about giving warning.

“Excuse me, lady.” 49:43 · “We should give a fellow a warning.” 49:44 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 49:40 (passage 49:34–49:47); US record: No renewal found

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