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Penny Serenade · Beat 368 · permalink

Living room

1:53:12–1:53:32 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:53:221:53:22

Play from 1:53:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 162 · shots 669–669. 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, wearing a coat and hat, bending over visible
  • man, wearing a coat and hat, standing upright visible
Seen happening
  • A woman bends over a chair while a man stands behind her. [frame:1]
Seen
chair [frame:1], suitcase [frame:1], hat [frame:1], coat [frame:1], cabinet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: departure, emotional farewell; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, static framing, studio lighting

A woman bends over a chair in a room while a man stands behind her; a line of dialogue is spoken. The setting appears to be an interior space with furniture and decor visible.

“I don't blame you, Julie.” 113:29 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 1:53:22 (passage 1:53:12–1:53:32); US record: No renewal found

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