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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 25 · permalink

Shop

8:29–9:04 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; 4 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 8:478:47

Play from 8:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 35–35. 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 wearing a light-colored shirt, dark vest, and tie, holding trousers visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, visible in background near window visible
  • unseen speaker, referred to as 'sugar' audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds up a pair of trousers while others look on. [frame:1]
Also said
“Okay, sugar.” 8:42 · “Hey, fellas. Look what I found in the pocket of these pants.” 9:02
Seen
trousers [frame:1], suit jacket [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1], window with curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: theft, deception, collaboration; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

A man in a suit holds up trousers while speaking to others in a tailor shop; he mentions a paper in the watch pocket with a safe combination and plans to use it that night. Another person responds affirmatively and later shows the trousers to others.

“My clothes are in the Pit Boys tailor shop around the corner.” 8:30 · “Now in the watch pocket of the trousers, there's a piece of paper with a combination to a safe.” 8:34 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 8:47 (passage 8:29–9:04); US record: No renewal found

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