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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 39 · permalink

Shop

11:54–12:33 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:5711:57Frame at 12:0812:08Frame at 12:2512:25

Play from 11:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 64–66. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with receding hairline, wearing dark suit and patterned tie visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing light shirt and dark vest with patterned tie visible
  • man with dark hair and beret, wearing light shirt and striped tie visible
  • woman wearing dark hat and coat, partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman hands money to one of the men at a counter. [frame:2]
  • The men begin searching each other's clothing. [frame:3]
Also said
“Keep the change. Thanks.” 12:07 · “Aren't we the saps? We had a fortune in our hand. Let us slide through. I'm gonna search you all the clothes me too” 12:09
Seen
counter [frame:2], barred window [frame:2], money [frame:2], beret [frame:1], patterned tie [frame:1], striped tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic frustration; themes: miscommunication, searching for hidden value, group dynamics under pressure; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio comedies

Three men stand at a counter where a woman hands one of them money; they later search each other's clothing and find more cash. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be an indoor commercial space with barred windows.

“You said 42.50?” 11:58 · “There you are.” 12:06 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 11:57 (passage 11:54–12:33); US record: No renewal found

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