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Penny Serenade · Beat 344 · permalink

Living room

1:46:14–1:46:27 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; 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 1:46:181:46:18Frame at 1:46:251:46:25

Play from 1:46:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 156 · shots 623–624. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curled hair, wearing a dark dress and a pearl necklace visible, audible
  • man in a dark suit and tie, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is seated, resting her chin on her hand. [frame:1]
  • The man stands near a door, facing away from the camera. [frame:2]
Seen
pearl necklace [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2], door [frame:2], armchair [frame:1], fireplace [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: domestic tension, marital conflict; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman sits in a living room while a man stands near a door. The woman speaks, asking him to stop the door from banging.

“Will you please stop that door from banging?” 106:25 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 1:46:18 (passage 1:46:14–1:46:27); US record: No renewal found

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