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Penny Serenade · Beat 366 · permalink

Living room

1:52:31–1:53:04 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:52:481:52:48

Play from 1:52:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 162 · shots 667–667. 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
  • man, wearing a dark suit, standing near a suitcase visible
  • woman, wearing a long robe, holding a tray visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a suitcase while a woman holds a tray in a room. [frame:1]
Also said
“I was cussing and pounding that old machine.” 112:44 · “Would you get the rest of the things out of the bedroom for me, please?” 112:53
Seen
suitcase, tray, lamp, clock
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reflective and domestic; themes: memory, domestic life, personal recollection; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, period costume, interior set design

A man in a suit stands near a suitcase in a dimly lit room while a woman in a robe holds a tray; the transcript includes a recollection of meeting and a request to retrieve items from the bedroom. No names are spoken that identify the individuals in this beat.

“While I was listening downstairs there,” 112:34 · “I could remember just as clear the first time I ever saw you.” 112:37 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 1:52:48 (passage 1:52:31–1:53:04); US record: No renewal found

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