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Road to Happiness · Beat 169 · permalink

Private office

1:00:14–1:00:28 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; 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 1:00:181:00:18Frame at 1:00:251:00:25

Play from 1:00:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 350–351. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, medium build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • man in patterned overcoat, medium build, short hair, clean-shaven visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The two men shake hands. [frame:2]
Also said
“Good night, Miss.” 60:23 · “Good night.” 60:25
Seen
wooden desk, framed picture on wall, wood-paneled door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and polite; themes: professional courtesy, farewell, formal interaction; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with wood paneling

Two men in suits are shown indoors, one offering help and saying good night before they shake hands. The setting appears to be a formal interior space with wood paneling and a framed picture on the wall.

“If you ever need any help,” 60:17 · “Don't hesitate to call them.” 60:19 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 1:00:18 (passage 1:00:14–1:00:28); US record: No renewal found

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