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Road to Happiness · Beat 7 · permalink

Hallway

2:29–2:41 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). 1 name 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 2:352:35

Play from 2:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 8–8. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, light shirt, tie, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • man in suit walks from doorway toward camera [frame:1]
Seen
wall sconce, small table, bust sculpture, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white, minimal set design

A man in a dark suit walks through a hallway past a small table with a bust and a wall sconce. The setting appears to be an interior space with plain walls and minimal decoration.

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 2:35 (passage 2:29–2:41); US record: No renewal found

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