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Penny Serenade · Beat 16 · permalink

Shop

4:55–5:20 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:574:57Frame at 5:065:06Frame at 5:105:10Frame at 5:185:18

Play from 4:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 26–31. 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 jacket visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing behind a drum set visible
Seen happening
  • The man is visible behind a drum set. [frame:2]
  • The woman is shown in close-up, looking surprised. [frame:3]
  • The woman is shown in close-up, smiling. [frame:4]
Also said
“It's a new tune.” 5:15 · “I didn't hear you. Yes, it just came in.” 5:16
Seen
drum set [frame:1], stack of sheet music [frame:2], large gramophone horns [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: music, romantic dialogue, shop setting; style notes: medium shots and close-ups with studio lighting; shallow depth of field isolates subjects from background instruments

A woman and a man are in a music store with instruments visible; the woman speaks about a new tune. The man is briefly visible behind a drum set before the camera cuts to close-ups of the woman’s face.

“The angels must have sent you and they mend you just for me. New tune, isn't it?” 4:57 · “I beg your pardon.” 5:11 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 4:57 (passage 4:55–5:20); US record: No renewal found

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