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Penny Serenade · Beat 310 · permalink

Dining room

1:35:58–1:36:18 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; 2 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 1:36:071:36:07Frame at 1:36:171:36:17

Play from 1:35:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 553–554. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark dress, apron, mid-adult, standing visible
  • child, light dress with collar, seated, young girl visible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures with her hand while standing beside a dining table. [frame:1]
  • A child sits at the table, looking up with an open mouth. [frame:2]
Also said
“Dinner in my own home and I didn't have to cook it.” 96:06 · “Wow!” 96:16
Seen
dining table with tablecloth [frame:1], set plates and cutlery [frame:1], chandelier [frame:1], child's chair [frame:2], plate with food [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, lighthearted; themes: family meal, domestic life, childhood reaction; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, centered framing on characters and table

A woman and a child are in a dining room with a set table; the woman gestures while speaking. The child sits at the table, looking up as dinner is announced.

“Dinner's ready. Come and get it or I'll throw it in the creek.” 96:01 · “Oh, isn't it wonderful?” 96:03 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 1:36:07 (passage 1:35:58–1:36:18); US record: No renewal found

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