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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 46 · permalink

Shop

14:58–15:19 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:0115:01Frame at 15:0515:05Frame at 15:1315:13

Play from 14:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 82–84. 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 dark suit, medium build, mid-adult, wearing tie visible, audible
  • man in light suit jacket, medium build, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • p2 grabs p1 by the lapels [frame:1]
  • p1 leans over p2, shouting [frame:2]
  • p2 pushes p1 against a clothing rack [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. Honest, I did. Don't move. Honest. I...” 15:12
Seen
hanging suits, stacked boxes, clothing rack, wall-mounted sconces
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, coercion, deception; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, staged physical conflict

Two men confront each other in a clothing store; one grabs the other by the lapels while a third man watches. The transcript includes shouted pleas for help and denials of intent.

“You'll talk. There.” 15:01 · “You'll talk now. Hey, shut up. I... Where is that piece of paper? I haven't got it. Oh, still won't talk. Help! Help! Help!” 15:04 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 15:01 (passage 14:58–15:19); US record: No renewal found

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