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Road to Happiness · Beat 175 · permalink

Bedroom

1:01:23–1:01:43 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:261:01:26Frame at 1:01:321:01:32Frame at 1:01:391:01:39

Play from 1:01:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 359–361. 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, frame:3
People
  • boy, young, wearing light-colored striped pajamas visible
  • man, adult, wearing dark suit and tie visible
Seen happening
  • A boy holds up a pair of roller skates. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands near a curtained window. [frame:2]
  • The boy moves toward a bed with clothes on it while the man watches. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh.” 61:35 · “Well, next time's a beer.” 61:37
Seen
roller skates [frame:1], bed with clothes [frame:3], curtained window [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], pajamas [frame:1, frame:3], suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, slightly chaotic; themes: childhood, domestic life, preparation or packing; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A boy in pajamas holds up roller skates while a man in a suit stands nearby in a bedroom; the boy then moves toward a bed with clothes on it. The transcript includes fragmented lines about roller skates, sweaters, socks, gloves, and a beer.

“Oh, and some roller skates.” 61:28 · “socks and the gloves and” 61:35 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 1:01:26 (passage 1:01:23–1:01:43); US record: No renewal found

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