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Road to Happiness · Beat 122 · permalink

Living room

46:59–47:33 Released 1941; registered 1942

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 47:1647:16

Play from 46:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 238–238. 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
  • Mr. Rankin (named at t:47:10): adult male, wearing suit and tie, light hair, seated on couch visible, audible
  • boy, wearing dark suit, seated on couch visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man checks a watch while sitting on a couch next to a boy. [frame:1]
Also said
“512. Why?” 47:16 · “But Mom said she had a headache. Well, perhaps she's feeling better now. I've all seen. No, but it's getting late and I thought someone might drop in.” 47:30
Seen
couch [frame:1], watch [frame:1], potted plant on stand [frame:1], shelf with decorative items [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, domestic; themes: family, radio culture, domestic routine; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man and a boy sit on a couch in a living room; the man checks a watch and speaks about listening to a radio program while the boy responds. The man mentions getting the boy's mother, who reportedly has a headache, and notes it is late and someone might drop in.

“Here's where I spend a month fishing every summer. You and I can have a lot of fun up there.” 47:01 · “What time is it?” 47:13 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 Road to Happiness (1941) at 47:16 (passage 46:59–47:33); US record: No renewal found

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