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Road to Happiness · Beat 12 · permalink

Field

4:51–5:08 Released 1941; registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 4:594:59

Play from 4:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 14–14. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, walking visible
  • man in dark suit, medium build, walking visible
  • group of people in dark clothing, distant, standing in line visible
Seen happening
  • Two men walk across a field toward a line of people. [frame:1]
Seen
flag [frame:1], trees [frame:1], field [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: outdoor gathering, formal attire in informal setting; style notes: wide shot, black and white, static camera, open space

Two men in dark suits walk across a large open field toward a distant line of people. A flag and trees are visible in the background, and the scene is shot in black and white with wide framing.

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 4:59 (passage 4:51–5:08); US record: No renewal found

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