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Penny Serenade · Beat 322 · permalink

Theatre

1:40:07–1:40:22 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:40:091:40:09Frame at 1:40:141:40:14Frame at 1:40:191:40:19

Play from 1:40:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 583–585. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and patterned tie, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • woman in dark dress with light collar, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • child in light dress, small build, dark hair visible
  • choir members in white robes, indistinct features visible
Seen happening
  • A stage scene with a choir and a decorated Christmas tree is visible. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman in the audience are shown watching the stage. [frame:2]
  • A child in a light dress walks across the stage. [frame:3]
Seen
Christmas tree, choir robes, stage curtain, theatre seats, child's dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reverent and focused; themes: performance, audience engagement, holiday setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical staging with a painted backdrop

A stage performance with a choir and a child performer is shown, while an audience including a man and a woman watches. The transcript includes a line about 'Glory' being 'free from heaven afar.'

“Glory is free from heaven afar.” 100:08 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 1:40:09 (passage 1:40:07–1:40:22); US record: No renewal found

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