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Road to Happiness · Beat 29 · permalink

Living room

13:02–13:24 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:0713:07Frame at 13:1813:18

Play from 13:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 59–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • young boy, wearing a military-style uniform with insignia, seated visible, audible
  • adult man, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated at a table visible, audible
  • adult woman, wearing a dark uniform, seated at the table visible
Seen happening
  • The boy is visible in a close-up, holding a white object. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman are visible seated at a table with glasses and plates. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, tell me boy” 13:06 · “I love” 13:12
Seen
military-style uniform [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:2], table with glasses and plates [frame:2], framed painting on wall [frame:2], patterned wallpaper [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and conversational; themes: family interaction, military youth, domestic setting; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A young boy in uniform speaks to an adult man at a table; the man responds. The setting is an interior room with patterned wallpaper and a framed painting.

“Oh,” 13:02 · “Honey boy” 13:03 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 13:07 (passage 13:02–13:24); US record: No renewal found

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