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Penny Serenade · Beat 312 · permalink

Dining room

1:36:26–1:36:39 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:36:301:36:30Frame at 1:36:371:36:37

Play from 1:36:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 556–557. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress, mid-adult visible
  • Darlene (named at t:96:37): child with dark hair, wearing light dress, seen from back visible
  • man in light shirt, mid-adult, seen from side visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit looks down at a table with a child and two women seated around it. [frame:1]
  • Four people are seated at a dining table in a domestic setting. [frame:2]
Seen
dining table with cloth, wooden chairs, potted plant on side table, wall clock, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, conversational; themes: family meal, childhood, domestic life; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

A man in a suit sits at a table with a child and two women in a dining room setting. The transcript includes a line asking a child about her school day.

“Well, we sure changed the complexion of that bird. We said they did.” 96:31 · “What did you do in school today, Darlene?” 96:37 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 1:36:30 (passage 1:36:26–1:36:39); US record: No renewal found

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