Private office

30:40–30:45 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

30:43

Play from 30:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 150–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

person visible behind a metal gate, wearing light-colored clothing, partially obscured visible

Seen

metal gate [frame:1], small table [frame:1], potted plant [frame:1], wall-mounted decorative panel [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast studio lighting, black-and-white film

A person stands behind a metal gate in an interior space with a small table and potted plant nearby. The scene is lit with studio lighting and shows no clear time of day or period markers.

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 30:43 (passage 30:40–30:45); US record: No renewal found

Permalink: always the current cut
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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/penny_serenade/b76.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/penny_serenade/b76"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/penny_serenade/0150.webp" alt="Frame from Penny Serenade (1941) at 30:43 (passage 30:40–30:45); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Penny Serenade (1941), 30:40–30:45. Internet Archive copy penny_serenade; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Penny Serenade (1941), 30:40–30:45", https://publicreel.org/moment/penny_serenade/b76, from Internet Archive item penny_serenade, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Private office

Evidence and details

The record

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