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Road to Happiness · Beat 15 · permalink

Living room

6:15–7:14 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; 3 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 6:456:45

Play from 6:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 18–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jeff Carter (named at t:6:20): man in dark suit, middle-aged, thinning hair, bowing visible, audible
  • Danny (named at t:6:28): boy in soldier suit, young, standing upright visible, audible
  • Mrs. Price (named at t:6:20): woman in patterned dress and apron, older, standing visible, audible
Also said
“Will you folks come to stay with me for a little while?” 6:40 · “To tell you the truth, I'm flat broke.” 6:55
Seen
soldier suit, patterned wallpaper, decorative wall mirror, apron
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite reunion with underlying financial strain; themes: reunion, economic hardship, family; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man introduces his son to a woman named Mrs. Price in a domestic interior; he mentions being broke after returning from Europe and asks for lodging. The woman agrees to let them stay.

“Well, Jeff Carter, of all people on this wide earth. Oh, Mrs.” 6:20 · “And this grown-up young man in his soldier suit. This is my son Danny, Mrs. Price.” 6:28 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 6:45 (passage 6:15–7:14); US record: No renewal found

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