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Road to Happiness · Beat 132 · permalink

Living room

50:18–50:40 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:2150:21Frame at 50:2650:26Frame at 50:3450:34Frame at 50:3850:38

Play from 50:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 61 · shots 263–267. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • boy, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing in front of a piano visible
  • man, dark suit, standing with three others, holding a glass visible
  • woman, blonde, wearing a patterned dress, holding a glass visible
  • man, dark suit, standing next to p3, holding a glass visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress, holding a glass visible
  • man, dark suit, white pocket square, standing alone visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light patterned dress, touching her neck visible
Also said
“- It's Nick Long and his game off the ranch.” 50:28 · “But she jumped in the river trying to get away.” 50:36
Seen
piano, vase with flowers, chandelier, glass, couch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: rescue, confinement, family conflict; style notes: studio-lit interior scenes with medium and close shots, formal attire, static framing

A group of people in formal attire are shown in a room with furniture and decor; dialogue references a rescue, a ranch, a gold mine, and a girl who jumped into a river. No names are assigned to the individuals based on the transcript or frames.

“Today's the day Red Deer rescues the drowning girl.” 50:18 · “Her father owns a lazy W ranch, but their gold mine...” 50:23 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 50:21 (passage 50:18–50:40); US record: No renewal found

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