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1:22:16–1:22:39 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; 4 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 1:22:181:22:18Frame at 1:22:291:22:29

Play from 1:22:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 490–491. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • baby in light-colored outfit, standing visible
  • woman in dark suit and hat, standing with hands on hips visible, audible
  • woman in light dress, standing visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and dark trousers, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A baby stands in a playpen outdoors. [frame:1]
  • Three adults stand together in a garden, conversing. [frame:2]
Also said
“Could I drive you to the train?” 82:26 · “This country air is so fresh.” 82:31
Seen
playpen [frame:1], suitcase [frame:2], flowering bush [frame:2], window [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: family, departure, rural setting; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, static framing

A baby stands in a playpen outdoors while three adults converse nearby. One adult offers to drive another to the train, and someone remarks on the fresh country air.

“You're on a school now.” 82:22 · “That's all we can do today.” 82:23 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 1:22:18 (passage 1:22:16–1:22:39); US record: No renewal found

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