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Penny Serenade · Beat 324 · permalink

Theatre

1:40:51–1:41:13 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:40:531:40:53Frame at 1:40:591:40:59Frame at 1:41:081:41:08

Play from 1:40:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 591–593. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(theatre, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in tuxedo and bow tie, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • child in white costume with wings, young girl visible
  • man in suit and tie, dark hair visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, light hair visible
Seen happening
  • Man in tuxedo looks forward. [frame:1]
  • Child in costume stands on stage with star backdrop. [frame:2]
  • Man and woman sit together in audience. [frame:3]
Also said
“Shepard's Waste” 101:02 · “And the stars” 101:07
Seen
tuxedo, bow tie, child costume with wings, star backdrop, audience seating
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and reverent; themes: performance, family, holiday tradition; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close shots, stage lighting on performer, dimmer ambient light on audience

A man in a tuxedo is shown in close-up, followed by a child in a costume on a stage with a star backdrop, then a couple seated in an audience. The transcript includes fragments of a carol and a misheard line.

“Silent night” 100:52 · “Holy night.” 100:57 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 1:40:53 (passage 1:40:51–1:41:13); US record: No renewal found

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