Public Reel

Road to Happiness · Beat 131 · permalink

Living room

49:52–50:18 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:5649:56Frame at 50:0450:04Frame at 50:0950:09Frame at 50:1750:17

Play from 49:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 61 · shots 257–262. 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
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a light patterned dress with lace sleeves, holding a glass visible, audible
  • man, light hair, wearing a dark suit with a white pocket square, standing upright visible, audible
  • Danny (named at t:49:52): boy, dark hair, wearing a dark suit, looking up at adults visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit, standing with hands clasped visible, audible
  • woman, blonde hair, wearing a patterned robe or dress, holding a glass visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a white collar, holding a glass visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The group stands together in a room, listening to Danny. [frame:1]
  • More adults gather around as Danny speaks about his father. [frame:2]
  • Danny and the man in the dark suit stand together as the conversation continues. [frame:4]
Also said
“The laughing cowboy.” 50:05 · “He plays Red Deer on the program he wants to hear.” 50:13
Seen
chandelier, glass, couch, curtains, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and conversational; themes: family, radio entertainment, childhood imagination; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, staged group composition

A group of adults and a boy named Danny are in a room, discussing a radio program called The Laughing Cowboy. Danny explains that his father is an actor who plays a character named Red Deer on that program.

“Danny, say, how do you do?” 49:52 · “Laughing what?” 50:04 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Road to Happiness (1941) at 49:56 (passage 49:52–50:18); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/road_to_happiness/b131.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite