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Road to Happiness · Beat 214 · permalink

Studio

1:12:00–1:12:08 Released 1941; registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 6 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 1:12:041:12:04

Play from 1:12:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 444–444. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and trousers, standing, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, standing at music stand, facing p1 visible
  • man seated at piano, wearing suit visible
  • man visible behind glass partition, seated visible
  • man visible behind glass partition, seated visible
  • audience member, back of head visible visible
Seen
music stands [frame:1], piano [frame:1], microphone on stand [frame:1], glass partition [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], chairs [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, staged; themes: performance, broadcast, music; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, symmetrical framing with foreground and background planes

A man in a shirt and trousers stands at a music stand facing another man in a suit at a second music stand; a third man sits at a piano in the background with two others visible behind a glass partition. The setting is an indoor studio with a visible audience and stage lighting.

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 1:12:04 (passage 1:12:00–1:12:08); US record: No renewal found

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