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1:12:08–1:12:41 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:211:12:21Frame at 1:12:371:12:37

Play from 1:12:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 445–446. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • John (named at t:72:18): adult male, tall, dark suit, tie, neat hair visible, audible
  • boy, dark suit, holding hat, looking up at p1 visible, audible
  • Clark (named at t:72:36): adult male, dark suit, visible in background doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a boy embrace in a hallway. [frame:1]
  • The man pats the boy's head while another man watches from a doorway. [frame:2]
Also said
“Son, your dad has just begun and finished the shortest singing radio career in history.” 72:27 · “The laughing cowboy's public probably isn't ready for that yet, sir. Say, Clark, you did a great job.” 72:36
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], hat [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], wall-mounted sign [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: bittersweet; themes: father-son relationship, radio performance, career disappointment; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man and a boy in suits embrace and speak in a hallway; another man in a suit appears in the background. The transcript indicates a radio performance has just ended and the man is being praised.

“Oh gee, Dad. Sound all right? All right?” 72:08 · “- He did, you were great. - Thanks, John.” 72:18 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 1:12:21 (passage 1:12:08–1:12:41); US record: No renewal found

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