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Penny Serenade · Beat 325 · permalink

Theatre

1:41:13–1:41:32 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:41:181:41:18Frame at 1:41:271:41:27

Play from 1:41:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 594–595. 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
  • child in white dress and angel wings, holding a prop visible
  • group of people in white robes, standing in rows visible
  • person seated at piano on stage visible
  • unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A child in angel costume stands on stage holding a prop [frame:1]
  • A choir in white robes stands behind a piano on a decorated stage [frame:2]
Also said
“God bless you.” 101:30
Seen
Christmas tree with lights, star prop, angel wings costume, piano, stage curtain
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reverent; themes: religious performance, childhood innocence, choral music; style notes: stage lighting, wide shot of ensemble, close-up on child, black-and-white film

A stage performance depicts a nativity scene with a choir and a child in costume. A voice sings lyrics about heavenly glory and blesses the audience.

“Glory streams from heaven afar” 101:13 · “Heavenly hosts sing alleluia” 101:23 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 1:41:18 (passage 1:41:13–1:41:32); US record: No renewal found

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