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Penny Serenade · Beat 305 · permalink

Living room

1:34:25–1:34:49 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:261:34:26Frame at 1:34:291:34:29Frame at 1:34:341:34:34Frame at 1:34:431:34:43

Play from 1:34:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 139 · shots 537–540. 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:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build visible, audible
  • Trina (named at t:94:29): woman in dark dress, medium build visible, audible
  • child, small, in light dress visible
  • man in white apron, heavier build visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand in a kitchen area, looking around. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit bends toward a child sitting on a sofa. [frame:2]
  • A man in dark clothes stands near a dining table set for a meal. [frame:3]
  • A woman and child face a man in an apron; the woman says 'Surprise!' [frame:4]
Also said
“Trina? Where can everybody be this time today?” 94:33 · “Surprise!” 94:38
Seen
white stove, dining table with white tablecloth, child's dress, man's apron
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory, domestic; themes: family, domestic life, surprise; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, staged lighting, classic Hollywood framing

A man and a woman are in a home, looking for others; a child is present. A man in an apron appears, and the woman greets him with surprise.

“Where is everybody?” 94:26 · “Trina!” 94:29 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 1:34:26 (passage 1:34:25–1:34:49); US record: No renewal found

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