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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 40 · permalink

Shop

12:33–13:13 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4812:48Frame at 13:0313:03Frame at 13:0813:08

Play from 12:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 67–69. 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, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a striped jacket, seen from behind at a counter visible
  • man in white shirt and tie, holding a garment visible
  • Sugar Plum (named at t:12:52): woman wearing a feathered hat and patterned blouse visible
  • partially visible person, head only, in foreground visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped jacket stands at a counter in a shop. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a receipt that says 'Received payment in full, Pep Boys Cleaners'. [frame:2]
  • A man in a white shirt shows a garment to a woman in a feathered hat. [frame:3]
Also said
“There you are, Sugar Plum. I knew you'd come through, baby.” 12:52 · “Received payment in full, pit boys, cleaners. Why they dirty?” 13:02
Seen
receipt [frame:2], counter [frame:1], garment [frame:3], feathered hat [frame:3], striped jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic and slightly chaotic; themes: miscommunication, consumer service, gender roles in 1940s retail; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, studio lighting

A man in a shop interacts with a woman and others while holding a receipt; a separate scene shows a man in a striped jacket at a counter. The transcript includes dialogue about a coat, pants, and a payment receipt from 'Pep Boys Cleaners'.

“Hiya, fellas.” 12:36 · “As you want you to make me a pair of pants to match.” 12:41 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 12:48 (passage 12:33–13:13); US record: No renewal found

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