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1:55:15–1:56:44 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 1:56:001:56:00

Play from 1:55:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 165 · shots 675–675. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Miss Oliver (named at t:116:34): woman, wearing a suit jacket and dark gloves, standing upright visible, audible
  • man, wearing a fedora and overcoat, standing slightly behind and to the side of p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand together in a dimly lit interior space. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'll never try another dress on you again.” 116:09 · “Hello. Miss Oliver?” 116:34
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], overcoat [frame:1], suit jacket [frame:1], dark gloves [frame:1], column or pillar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and regretful; themes: parental regret, sudden loss, grief; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, black and white film stock, period costume

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit interior space, speaking about a child's sudden illness and their regrets. The woman is addressed as 'Miss Oliver' near the end of the beat.

“God did work on Tilly.” 115:17 · “The day before she was taken sick, she asked me for a quarter, and I wouldn't let her have it.” 115:45 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 1:56:00 (passage 1:55:15–1:56:44); US record: No renewal found

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