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Road to Happiness · Beat 25 · permalink

Dining room

11:30–11:49 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 11:3111:31Frame at 11:3511:35Frame at 11:4411:44

Play from 11:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 41–43. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • balding man with mustache, wearing suit and tie visible
  • man in suit, smiling, seated at table visible
  • girl in uniform, seated at table visible
  • multiple people seated around a large table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits at a table with a glass and a pitcher. [frame:1]
  • A group of people are seated around a large dinner table under a chandelier. [frame:2]
  • A man and a girl sit at a table, facing each other and talking. [frame:3]
Also said
“From glen to glen and down the mountainside.” 11:38
Seen
chandelier [frame:2], dinner table with tablecloth [frame:2], glass and pitcher [frame:1], framed painting on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, conversational; themes: dining, song performance, social gathering; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, formal dining setting

A man in a suit sits at a table in a dining room; a wider shot shows a group at a dinner table with a chandelier; a man and a girl sit at a table talking. The transcript includes lines from a song being sung.

“Danny boy.” 11:30 · “The pipes, the pipes are calling.” 11:32 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 11:31 (passage 11:30–11:49); US record: No renewal found

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