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A Bride for Henry · Beat 104 · permalink

Living room

42:26–43:21 Registered 1937

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 42:5342:53

Play from 42:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 183–183. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Sheila (named at t:43:16): woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned dress with puffed sleeves visible, audible
  • Eric (named at t:43:05): man, dark hair, wearing a tweed jacket and light trousers, holding a cigarette visible, audible
Also said
“You may consider our engagement broken.” 43:13 · “Oh, Sheila!” 43:16
Seen
cigarette [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: romantic conflict, engagement broken, emotional responsibility; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man and a woman are in a room; the woman speaks about Henry and Helen Van Orden while the man reacts. The man breaks off their engagement after she expresses responsibility for Henry.

“Probably too occupied with Helen Van Orden.” 42:48 · “I think I should stay married to him long enough to give him a chance to get over it.” 42:57 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 A Bride for Henry (1937) at 42:53 (passage 42:26–43:21); US record: No renewal found

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