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Sing a Song of Six Pants · Beat 6 · permalink

Private office

1:56–2:43 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; 2 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 2:202:20

Play from 1:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 8–8. 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
  • man, medium build, wearing light shirt and dark vest, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • man, medium build, wearing light shirt and dark vest, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
Also said
“Hargan is going to walk right in here and let you capture him.” 2:29 · “We're gonna be paupers. Paupers! Why, you kidding? We're not even married.” 2:34
Seen
radio, vests
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic tension; themes: financial desperation, absurd crime, radio as plot device; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men in vests stand near a radio in an interior setting, discussing capturing a criminal named Hargan to collect a reward. The transcript includes a news flash about Hargan’s crimes and a radio ad for gasoline.

“Police are frantically scouring the town in search of Terry's slippery-fingered heart.” 2:00 · “Why don't we capture Hargan and collect the reward, then we can pay our bills.” 2:23 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 2:20 (passage 1:56–2:43); US record: No renewal found

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