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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 11 · permalink

Shop

4:04–4:52 Registered 1947

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; 3 names 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 4:074:07Frame at 4:314:31

Play from 4:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 14–15. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cap, apron, and light shirt, working at a pressing station visible
  • man in vest and shirt, standing, gesturing, confronting p1 visible
  • Mr. Grant (named at t:4:16): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man presses garments at a work station. [frame:1]
  • A man confronts another man near a barred doorway. [frame:2]
Also said
“Uh-uh.” 4:33 · “What are you saying to run up on?” 4:44
Seen
pressing iron and board [frame:1], garments on hangers [frame:1], barred doorway [frame:2], bulletin board with papers [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: workplace urgency, miscommunication, absurdity in routine tasks; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, black-and-white, mid-century costume design

Two men are in a tailor shop; one is pressing garments while the other confronts him about missing pants. The dialogue suggests urgency and confusion over the location of Mr. Grant's pants.

“What are you stalling around for? Oh, oh, oh, oh. You know you've got a rush order to get out. Get Mr. Grant's pants and hand press them. All right, all right, but where are they? I pinged them up in the shade.” 4:16 · “What did you do with him? I didn't touch him.” 4:30 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 Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947) at 4:07 (passage 4:04–4:52); US record: No renewal found

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