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Road to Happiness · Beat 130 · permalink

Living room

49:33–49:52 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:3649:36Frame at 49:4449:44Frame at 49:5049:50

Play from 49:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 254–256. 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, dark hair visible
  • woman in patterned long dress, blonde hair visible
  • woman in dark dress, dark hair visible
  • woman in light-colored suit, dark hair visible
  • man in dark suit, light hair visible
  • Danny (named at t:49:42): young boy in dark suit, short hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man points to a radio on a table. [frame:1]
  • The group stands together, looking at the boy. [frame:2]
  • The boy stands beside a man in a suit. [frame:3]
Also said
“- Hi, fella. - Hello, little boy. What's your name, honey?” 49:48
Seen
radio [frame:1], bottle [frame:1], glass [frame:1], couch [frame:1], lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: social and light; themes: family gathering, radio broadcast, child interaction; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A group of adults and a young boy stand in a room with furniture and a radio; one woman asks the boy his name. The transcript indicates they are listening to a radio broadcast and interacting with the child.

“It's on the air. Well, there's another radio in the kitchen, Danny.” 49:42 · “Millie, is this your little boy?” 49:46 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 49:36 (passage 49:33–49:52); US record: No renewal found

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