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Road to Happiness · Beat 160 · permalink

Street

57:11–57:18 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:1457:14

Play from 57:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 329–329. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored long coat and hat visible
  • figure in dark coat and hat, partially silhouetted visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light coat descends steps toward a taxi. [frame:1]
Seen
taxi [frame:1], steps [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nocturnal, quiet; themes: urban night, departure, solitude; style notes: high-contrast lighting, deep shadows, medium shot framing the doorway and street

A man in a light coat and hat walks down steps toward a taxi at night. Another figure in dark clothing stands near the doorway.

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 57:14 (passage 57:11–57:18); US record: No renewal found

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