Living room
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; 5 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.
Play from 17:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 9 · shots 16–17. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in suit and tie, standing, mid-30s, average build visible
- man seated, playing guitar, wearing vest visible
- woman with dark hair, wearing overalls, standing at piano visible
- man seated at piano, back to camera visible
- man playing brass instrument, partially visible visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit stands in a room while a band plays. [frame:1]
- A woman in overalls sings at a piano while a band plays behind her. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “The Piper” 17:43 · “Ray, Ray, when they're lively, they catch the piper beat. They start to sway and then it isn't long. Till all the folks are dancing, their hearts are gay. When he will play them a song.” 18:13
- Seen
- suit [frame:1], guitar [frame:1], piano [frame:2], overalls [frame:2], brass instrument [frame:2], painting of flowers [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: music performance, band rehearsal, 1940s domestic setting; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, staged band setup, period costume
A man in a suit stands in a room while a band plays; a woman in overalls sings at a piano. The transcript includes dialogue about changes and a song lyric mentioning 'the piper' and dancing.
“Gee, these changes are swell. Slide over, Frankie.” 17:35 · “All right, boys, let's go.” 17:40 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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