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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 16 · permalink

Private office

5:29–5:53 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 5:415:41

Play from 5:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 20–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a light shirt and dark vest, mid-motion with arm extended visible
Seen happening
  • A man is seen mid-motion, possibly recoiling or lunging. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh!” 5:43
Seen
wall-mounted control panel, window with shutters, desk or counter
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, betrayal; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static camera, dramatic lighting emphasizing the subject's motion

A man in a vest and shirt is captured mid-motion in an interior room, reacting to an accusation. The transcript includes exclamations and a line accusing someone of double-crossing.

“You double-crossing!” 5:37 · “Oh!” 5:41 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 5:41 (passage 5:29–5:53); US record: No renewal found

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