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28:48–29:20 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0429:04

Play from 28:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 137–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Roger (named at t:28:50): man in suit and tie, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • woman in patterned dress, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Roger and the woman sit together outdoors discussing a trip. [frame:1]
Also said
“Do you remember the honeymoon I promised you? Well, we're gonna have it.” 29:08 · “Besides, I want our baby boy in the USA.” 29:18
Seen
suit and tie [frame:1], patterned dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tender and persuasive; themes: marriage, parenthood, travel, sacrifice; style notes: medium two-shot, natural lighting, soft focus background, classic 1940s framing

A man and a woman sit outdoors discussing a planned trip around the world before their baby is born; the man says he quit his job to make the trip happen. The woman expresses concern about the baby, but the man insists they must go now.

“Paragraph two, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Adams, socially prominent young couple, plan to take a trip around the world.” 28:50 · “The paper's sending you. No, I've quit the paper.” 28:56 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 29:04 (passage 28:48–29:20); US record: No renewal found

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