Theatre
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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 50:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 296–299. 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
- woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a large decorative hat and stage costume, holding a microphone or prop visible, audible
- man, 40s-50s, wearing a sheriff's uniform with star badge and wide-brimmed hat visible
- man, 40s-50s, wearing a hat and dark coat, partially visible behind p2 visible
- audience members, mixed gender, wearing period attire, seated at tables visible
- Seen happening
- A woman in a stage costume sings on a stage. [frame:1]
- An audience watches the performance in a crowded room. [frame:2]
- A man in a sheriff's uniform stands in a doorway, looking toward the stage. [frame:3]
- The woman on stage holds a cane or prop while singing. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Every time I give my heart, I know that it's the last. But when that love has passed, I sigh. Well, maybe next time.” 51:14
- Seen
- stage costume with large hat, microphone or prop held by singer, sheriff's star badge, cane or prop, tables and chairs in audience area
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and theatrical; themes: romantic regret, performance, law enforcement presence; style notes: black-and-white, stage lighting focused on performer, wide shot of audience, medium shot of sheriff in doorway
A woman in a stage costume sings on a dimly lit stage while an audience watches; a man in a sheriff's uniform stands in a doorway. The transcript contains lines about a foolish heart and repeated romantic disappointment.
“This foolish heart of mine has burned its finger many times.” 50:58 · “But still, it doesn't lessen my desire.” 51:05 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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