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Road to Happiness · Beat 60 · permalink

Living room

25:35–26:38 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4725:47Frame at 26:1826:18Frame at 26:3826:38

Play from 25:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 117–119. 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
  • adult male, dark suit, medium build, seen from back and side visible, audible
  • boy, wearing hat and coat, holding shopping bags, smiling visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The boy stands in the doorway holding shopping bags while his father faces him. [frame:1]
  • The boy and his father stand facing each other, the boy gesturing as he speaks. [frame:2]
  • The father leans over a box as the boy looks up at him, both smiling. [frame:3]
Also said
“and I get to go over to her house and we're gonna have a party.” 26:14 · “I think it's great son I think it's great well come on let's see what you got.” 26:33
Seen
shopping bags [frame:1], wooden door [frame:1], wallpaper with pattern [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:1], dresser with mirror [frame:2], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: warm and familial; themes: family reunion, gifts, birthday celebration, parent-child interaction; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, domestic interior setting

A boy returns home with shopping bags and tells his father about gifts from his mother, including a new suit and a limousine, and announces his birthday party. The father listens, then leans over to look at the presents with the boy.

“Hi, Dad. Hi, soldier.” 25:45 · “I wish Mama had known your home. You know what, Dad? Mom's got a new car. Limousine.” 26:01 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 25:47 (passage 25:35–26:38); US record: No renewal found

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