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Road to Happiness · Beat 161 · permalink

Bedroom

57:18–57:26 Released 1941; registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 57:2257:22

Play from 57:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 330–330. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, seen from behind visible
  • person lying in bed, covered by sheets, face partially visible visible
Seen
bed [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1], suit [frame:1], pillow [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, intimate; themes: intimacy, care, private moment; style notes: tight framing, low-key lighting, static composition

A man in a suit leans over a person lying in bed in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper. The scene is static and confined to a single interior shot.

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 57:22 (passage 57:18–57:26); US record: No renewal found

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