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Road to Happiness · Beat 116 · permalink

Living room

43:17–43:23 Released 1941; registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 43:2043:20

Play from 43:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 222–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, visible from side, adjusting a chair visible
  • man in dark suit, medium build, walking across room, seen from front visible
Seen happening
  • One man adjusts a chair while another walks across the room. [frame:1]
Seen
armchair [frame:1], sofa [frame:1], rug [frame:1], window with curtains [frame:1], piano [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: domestic space, male interaction; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, symmetrical composition, classic Hollywood interior set design

Two men in dark suits are in a room with furniture; one adjusts a chair while the other walks across the room. The setting appears to be an interior space with large windows and decorative elements.

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 Road to Happiness (1941) at 43:20 (passage 43:17–43:23); US record: No renewal found

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