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Penny Serenade · Beat 245 · permalink

Private office

1:16:05–1:16:24 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:061:16:06Frame at 1:16:161:16:16

Play from 1:16:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 447–448. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit, short dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman with curly hair, light-colored blouse with patterned sash visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, wearing a mask over his face visible
  • baby lying in crib visible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman stand beside a crib [frame:1]
  • Man in vest tends to baby in crib [frame:2]
Seen
crib [frame:2], medical mask [frame:2], bottles on table [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: medical care, parental concern, search for person; style notes: medium close-up and medium shot, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A man and a woman stand beside a baby in a crib while another man tends to the baby. The woman asks for someone named Dalcom.

“All right.” 76:08 · “Where's Dalcom?” 76:09 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 1:16:06 (passage 1:16:05–1:16:24); US record: No renewal found

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