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Road to Happiness · Beat 23 · permalink

Dining room

10:59–11:09 Released 1941; registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 11:0411:04

Play from 10:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, back to camera, wearing a patterned dress, standing at a piano visible
  • group of adults seated at a dining table, dressed formally visible
Seen
piano [frame:1], dining table with tablecloth [frame:1], chandelier [frame:1], wallpapered walls [frame:1], framed pictures [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, quiet; themes: domestic life, social gathering; style notes: medium shot from behind the piano player, dim lighting with chandelier as key light, classic 1940s framing

A woman stands at a piano in a dimly lit room, facing a dining table where several people are seated. The setting appears to be a formal dinner in a private residence.

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 11:04 (passage 10:59–11:09); US record: No renewal found

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