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Till the Clouds Roll By · Beat 1 · permalink

Street

0:00–2:13:21 Registered 1946

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; 5 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 0:330:33Frame at 40:4240:42Frame at 1:17:451:17:45Frame at 2:09:232:09:23

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–313. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, t:18:51
People
  • man in light-colored suit, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible
  • man in white tuxedo, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible
  • woman in kitchen, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible
  • Joe (named at t:18:44): man (voice only), age and build unknown audible
  • Mr. Coyne (named at t:18:36): woman (voice only), age and build unknown audible
Also said
“That was a swell show, Mr. Coyne.” 18:36 · “The street is changed.” 19:49
Seen
title card reading 'Judy GARLAND', man in light-colored suit outdoors, woman in kitchen surrounded by dishes and pots, man in white tuxedo singing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and theatrical; themes: memory, theater, love, nostalgia; style notes: studio-lit scenes with period costumes, staged musical numbers, and a mix of intimate and public settings

A sequence from a 1946 musical film featuring a male performer in various settings including outdoors and a kitchen, with dialogue and song lyrics about love, theater, and memory. The film includes a title card for Judy Garland and a scene where a character recalls a childhood street.

“Come to us.” 2:13 · “How do you do? Are you an actress? Oh, no, but... But I'd give anything if I could be.” 6:42 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 Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) at 0:33 (passage 0:00–2:13:21); US record: No renewal found

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