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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 45 · permalink

Shop

14:46–14:58 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:4814:48Frame at 14:5214:52Frame at 14:5514:55Frame at 14:5714:57

Play from 14:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 78–81. 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 light suit, bending over, pressing pants with iron visible
  • Moe (named at t:14:47): man in dark suit and patterned tie, holding a book, standing visible, audible
  • man lying down, eyes closed, mouth open, under iron visible
  • man in dark suit, being grabbed by lapels by another man visible
  • man in light suit, grabbing p4 by lapels visible
Seen happening
  • A man presses another man's pants with an iron, causing steam to rise. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit holds a book and speaks. [frame:2]
  • A man lies with eyes closed as an iron is held above his face. [frame:3]
  • A man grabs another man by the lapels in a confrontation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Where is that paper? I tell you, I haven't got it.” 14:56
Seen
iron [frame:1], book [frame:2], suit [frame:4], lapels [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: physical comedy, miscommunication, confrontation; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio comedies

In a shop, one man presses another's pants with an iron while a third man holds a book and speaks. A fourth man is later seen being grabbed by the lapels in a confrontation.

“Ouch! Nice work, Moe.” 14:47 · “We might as well press his pants. Ouch!” 14:51 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 14:48 (passage 14:46–14:58); US record: No renewal found

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