Public Reel

Road to Happiness · Beat 187 · permalink

Private office

1:05:47–1:06:17 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; 6 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 1:05:531:05:53Frame at 1:06:061:06:06Frame at 1:06:161:06:16

Play from 1:05:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 391–393. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • boy, young, wearing a dark suit and holding a hat visible, audible
  • man, adult, wearing a dark suit with a pocket square, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man, adult, wearing a suit, standing with hands in pockets visible
  • man, adult, wearing a suit, holding papers, standing in a group visible
  • man, adult, wearing a suit, holding papers, standing in a group visible
  • woman, adult, wearing a light-colored dress, holding papers, standing in a group visible
Seen happening
  • The boy is visible holding his hat while speaking to two men. [frame:1]
  • A group of men and one woman in suits review papers. [frame:2]
  • The boy stands alone, holding his hat near a chair. [frame:3]
Also said
“We gotta get that engine too.” 66:05 · “Let me see that last line.” 66:13
Seen
hat [frame:1, frame:3], papers [frame:2], chair [frame:2, frame:3], suit [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: family duty, conflict, planning; style notes: static medium shots, formal attire, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A boy speaks to two men in a formal interior, then a group of men in suits review papers before the boy is shown alone holding a hat. The transcript includes dialogue about a father, a 'laughing cowboy,' and an engine.

“Hey, Mister, my dad can take his place. He's our greatest thing in the world. How close he is. Run along.” 65:47 · “Only one thing to do, men. Kill the laughing cowboy.” 65:58 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Road to Happiness (1941) at 1:05:53 (passage 1:05:47–1:06:17); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/road_to_happiness/b187.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite