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Penny Serenade · Beat 209 · permalink

Bedroom

1:04:53–1:05:06 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; 2 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 1:05:001:05:00

Play from 1:04:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 379–379. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with wavy hair, wearing light-colored top, smiling visible
  • man, visible only as a shadow on a wall, wearing a hat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman smiles while a man's shadow appears on the wall beside her. [frame:1]
Seen
shadow of a man wearing a hat, wall with horizontal lines
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate; themes: domesticity, intimacy; style notes: low-key lighting, shadow play, medium close-up

A woman smiles while a man's shadow is cast on a wall beside her; spoken lines suggest preparing for bed. The scene is indoors, with no visible clock or window to establish time.

“Oh.” 64:54 · “Let's go to bed.” 64:57 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 1:05:00 (passage 1:04:53–1:05:06); US record: No renewal found

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