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Road to Happiness · Beat 97 · permalink

Living room

36:01–36:45 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 36:0536:05Frame at 36:2236:22Frame at 36:4036:40

Play from 36:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 178–180. 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 hair, mustache, wearing dark suit visible, audible
  • boy, dark hair, wearing light shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man smiles while asking the boy if he wants to be a cowboy. [frame:3]
Also said
“Is Red you're gonna sing now? No, just going to be an Indian.” 36:21 · “Me? Sure.” 36:43
Seen
wooden door [frame:1], furniture (partial) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted; themes: father-son relationship, theater and performance, childhood imagination; style notes: medium close-up, static framing, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A man and a boy are in a room, discussing the man's upcoming role as 'Red Deer the Brave Indian' on the radio. The boy asks questions about the character, and the man responds while smiling.

“Your dad used to be an actor before he tried to be an opera singer. So he's just going back to acting a while, playing the part of Red Deer the Brave Indian.” 36:02 · “Can I tell the kids at school? Sure.” 36:19 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 36:05 (passage 36:01–36:45); US record: No renewal found

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