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Road to Happiness · Beat 13 · permalink

Private office

5:08–6:03 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:335:33Frame at 6:016:01

Play from 5:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 15–16. 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
  • Colonel Gregory (named at t:5:56): adult male, dark suit, tie, holding a hat, standing visible, audible
  • Danny (named at t:5:14): boy, wearing a military-style uniform with cap and sergeant stripes visible, audible
  • Dad (named at t:5:35): adult male, not visible, referred to as 'Dad' audible, mentioned
  • Mrs. Rankin (named at t:5:08): adult female, not visible, referred to as 'Mrs. Rankin' audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A boy in uniform salutes and reports to a man in a suit. [frame:1]
  • The boy walks on a city sidewalk past a building with a 'BARBETTA' sign. [frame:2]
Also said
“You must get packed because you're going with me.” 5:44 · “Thank you, Colonel Gregory.” 5:56
Seen
military-style uniform [frame:1], file cabinet [frame:1], portrait on wall [frame:1], BARBETTA sign [frame:2], sidewalk [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet tender, with a sense of reunion; themes: family reunion, military life, homecoming; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period-appropriate costumes and set design

A man in civilian clothes speaks with a boy in a military-style uniform inside an office; later, the boy walks on a city sidewalk past a building with a 'BARBETTA' sign. The dialogue reveals the boy is being taken home by his father after a long absence.

“Mrs. Rankin.” 5:08 · “Dad! When did you get home? Yesterday.” 5:35 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 5:33 (passage 5:08–6:03); US record: No renewal found

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