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Till the Clouds Roll By · Beat 2 · permalink

Theatre

2:13:21–2:15:08 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:13:422:13:42Frame at 2:14:352:14:35

Play from 2:13:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 2 · shots 314–315. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, young adult, slim build, wearing a white suit and white shirt with bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white suit is singing on stage. [frame:1]
  • The man stands on a pedestal surrounded by a large orchestra in white uniforms. [frame:2]
Also said
“Weary and so sick of trying. I'm tired of living, but I'm feared of dying. And old man, river, he just keeps rolling.” 133:56 · “The Lord.” 134:26
Seen
white suit [frame:1], orchestra [frame:2], pedestal [frame:2], musical instruments [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and reflective; themes: hardship, existential weariness, spiritual reference; style notes: studio stage with bright lighting, wide shot showing scale of orchestra, formal attire

A man in a white suit sings on a stage with a large orchestra behind him. The lyrics describe hardship and weariness, ending with a reference to a river and the Lord.

“You and me, we sweat and strain. Bodies all aching and wracked with pain. Toad that bar, lift that bell. You get a little drunk.” 133:20 · “And you'll land in jail.” 133:39 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 2:13:42 (passage 2:13:21–2:15:08); US record: No renewal found

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