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Road to Happiness · Beat 35 · permalink

Living room

15:22–15:54 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:3815:38

Play from 15:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 71–71. 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:1
People
  • Danny (named at t:15:23): boy, dark hair, wearing a collared jacket visible, audible
  • Dad (named at t:15:32): man, dark hair, mustache, wearing a suit visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Danny and his father face each other closely in a medium close-up. [frame:1]
Also said
“Just happy to see you again, that's all.” 15:36 · “You run along and get undressed.” 15:47
Seen
suit [frame:1], collared jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: emotional and tender; themes: father-son relationship, emotional reunion; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, studio lighting, focused on facial expressions

A boy and a man face each other in a close-up; the man speaks about being happy to see the boy again, and the boy responds emotionally. The man then tells the boy to go get undressed.

“Understand, Danny?” 15:23 · “Dad. There are tears in your eyes. No not me son I'm I'm just.” 15:32 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 15:38 (passage 15:22–15:54); US record: No renewal found

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