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Road to Happiness · Beat 81 · permalink

Shop

31:20–31:26 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 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 31:2131:21Frame at 31:2531:25

Play from 31:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 152–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, adult, medium build, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, and a fedora visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands at a counter and handles a dark cylindrical object. [frame:1]
  • The man looks down with a somber expression. [frame:2]
Seen
fedora [frame:1], suit [frame:1], counter [frame:1], dark cylindrical object [frame:1], guitars on wall [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: commerce, melancholy; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black and white, static camera

A man in a suit and fedora stands at a counter in a cluttered shop, handling an object. He then looks down with a somber expression while the transcript contains only 'Yeah.'

“Yeah.” 31:22 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 31:21 (passage 31:20–31:26); US record: No renewal found

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