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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 48 · permalink

Shop

15:21–15:47 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; 6 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 15:2915:29Frame at 15:4115:41Frame at 15:4615:46

Play from 15:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 86–88. 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 in light suit, tie, and vest, standing with steam rising from his head visible
  • man in dark suit, standing on a pile of boxes visible
  • man in light shirt and vest, holding back another man visible
  • man in dark suit, being held back by p3 visible
  • Mo (named at t:15:44): unseen speaker audible
  • Larry (named at t:15:44): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man's head is steaming. [frame:1]
  • A man is standing on a pile of boxes. [frame:2]
  • One man is holding back another man who is gesturing wildly. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hey, Mo! Mo, Larry! Get me off here! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! How do you feel, kid? Oh, I'm all right. We've got them! We've got to log them! What's that?” 15:44
Seen
boxes [frame:2], shelves [frame:2], framed pictures [frame:2], wall sconce [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: slapstick, miscommunication, physical exaggeration; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged physical comedy

Three men are in a room with shelves of boxes; one man is standing on a pile of boxes while another is being held back. A man is heard yelling for help and asking how someone feels, followed by a declaration that they have 'got them' and need to 'log them'.

“Oh, his head is steaming.” 15:29 · “That's it.” 15:36 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 15:29 (passage 15:21–15:47); US record: No renewal found

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