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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 5 · permalink

Private office

1:03–1:56 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:091:09Frame at 1:351:35

Play from 1:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 6–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • balding, curly hair, wearing a dark suit and striped tie visible, audible
  • wearing a vest over a shirt and tie, seated, legs crossed visible
  • wearing a vest and tie, holding a letter, standing visible, audible
Also said
“Balance now due $321.86.” 1:35 · “I'm too young to worry and get wrinkles on my pretty little face.” 1:47
Seen
letter, desk, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic tension; themes: financial pressure, comedy of evasion, workplace crisis; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, three-man grouping

Three men are in a room; one reads a threatening letter about repossession of tailoring equipment unless a $321.86 balance is paid within 24 hours. One man says he is too young to worry, and another suggests music to cheer them up.

“Hey, fellas, listen to this letter.” 1:19 · “This is to inform you that unless overdue payments for tailoring equipment are made within 24 hours, we will repossess said equipment.” 1:28 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 1:09 (passage 1:03–1:56); US record: No renewal found

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