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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 24 · permalink

Shop

7:58–8:29 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:148:14

Play from 7:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 34–34. 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 in dark suit and hat, facing away from camera visible
  • man in light-colored pants and vest, holding slacks visible
  • Officer (named at t:8:05): man in dark suit and hat, speaking to group visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and vest, speaking visible, audible
  • Sugar Plot (named at t:8:23): woman with curly hair, wearing dark jacket visible, audible
  • Marty (named at t:8:22): man addressed as Marty audible, mentioned
Also said
“you birds realize you just let terry hargan the bank robber slip right through my hands i'll run you in please officer i got six wives and two kids honest officer there was nobody came in here well he's in the neighborhood keep a sharp lookout i'll be back right right” 8:08 · “Hello, Sugar Plot. How are you? Just dandy.” 8:23
Seen
slacks [frame:1], hats [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], light-colored vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: misunderstanding, authority vs. civilians, comedy of errors; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, crowded framing

A man in a hat hands another man slacks while a police officer confronts a group about a bank robber. A woman greets someone named Marty and calls him Sugar Plot.

“Here you are, brother. Slick slacks. Try them all the size. Oh, yes. Try them right on.” 7:59 · “Gee, Officer, we-- - Quiet!” 8:05 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 8:14 (passage 7:58–8:29); US record: No renewal found

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