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1:56:44–1:56:56 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 1:56:481:56:48Frame at 1:56:541:56:54

Play from 1:56:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 165 · shots 676–677. 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
  • Mrs. Adams (named at t:116:44): woman, wearing a dark coat and hat, holding a telephone receiver to her ear visible, audible
  • man, wearing a fedora and overcoat, standing close to p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a telephone receiver to her ear. [frame:1]
  • A man stands beside the woman, looking at her. [frame:2]
Seen
telephone receiver [frame:1], fedora [frame:2], overcoat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and conversational; themes: domestic life, parenting, communication; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, black-and-white film, focused on character interaction

A woman speaks on the phone while a man stands beside her in an interior setting. The transcript mentions a two-year-old boy and addresses someone as Mrs. Adams.

“It's a very strange thing, Mrs. Adams.” 116:44 · “But we have a little boy who is just two years old” 116:47 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 1:56:48 (passage 1:56:44–1:56:56); US record: No renewal found

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