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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 42 · permalink

Shop

13:35–14:22 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:4613:46Frame at 13:5913:59Frame at 14:1014:10Frame at 14:2014:20

Play from 13:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 22 · shots 71–74. 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
  • heavyset man in dark suit, dark hair, mid-40s visible, audible
  • man in fedora and checkered jacket, mid-40s visible, audible
  • man in light suit and tie, standing at counter visible
  • man in vest and hat, standing near counter visible
  • man in dark suit, mid-40s, seen from back visible
  • man in dark suit, mid-40s, striking another visible
  • man in dark suit, mid-40s, being restrained against pole visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit strikes another man in the face. [frame:1]
  • A group of men stand around a counter in a shop. [frame:2]
  • A man in a checkered jacket walks away from the counter. [frame:3]
  • A man is restrained against a pole while another man confronts him. [frame:4]
Also said
“Okay, fellas, make them talk. Get 'em! I'll take it easy.” 13:58 · “Ouch!” 14:20
Seen
fedora hat, checkered jacket, counter, coats hanging on wall, metal pole
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, misunderstanding, physical comedy; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, staged physical comedy

Two men argue in a shop while others watch; one man is struck and another is restrained. A piece of paper with letters and numbers is mentioned as missing.

“Where that piece of paper was in my pants pocket. You mean the one with the numbers on it? That's it, that's it. And the letters L-R-L-R-L-O? Yes, yes. Where is it?” 13:47 · “I never saw it. Oh, a wise guy.” 13:55 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 13:46 (passage 13:35–14:22); US record: No renewal found

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