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Penny Serenade · Beat 200 · permalink

Living room

1:03:36–1:03:50 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:381:03:38Frame at 1:03:441:03:44

Play from 1:03:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 364–365. 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:2
People
  • woman in a light-colored dress, standing with hand to mouth visible
  • man in a dark suit, bending over, holding a small object visible
  • baby, head visible on bedding visible
Seen happening
  • A baby's head is shown resting on bedding. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit bends over holding a small object while a woman in a light dress stands nearby with her hand to her mouth. [frame:2]
Seen
small object held by man [frame:2], bedding [frame:1], door frame [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, intimate; themes: domestic life, parenthood; style notes: close-up on baby, medium shot of adults; soft lighting, black and white film

A man in a dark suit holds a small object while bending over near a woman in a light dress who stands with her hand to her mouth. A close-up shows a baby's head resting on bedding.

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 1:03:38 (passage 1:03:36–1:03:50); US record: No renewal found

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