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A Bride for Henry · Beat 110 · permalink

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46:18–47:33 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:5646:56

Play from 46:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 193–193. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white tuxedo with bow tie, dark hair, medium build visible
  • Sheila (named at t:46:21): woman in light-colored satin dress, dark hair, holding a glass visible
  • Mrs. Tuttle (named at t:46:32): woman in dark dress with floral corsage, blonde hair visible, audible
  • Henry (named at t:46:32): man in dark suit, not fully visible audible
  • Eric (named at t:46:51): man, not visible audible
  • Clifford (named at t:47:18): man, not visible audible
  • Mr. Van Fleet (named at t:47:18): man, not visible audible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand together at a party, one holding a glass. [frame:1]
Also said
“Mr. Van Fleet? Well, aren't you dancing? Oh, may I? With me.” 47:22 · “Why not? You will excuse us.” 47:27
Seen
glass [frame:1], corsage [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: socially polite, slightly tense; themes: social etiquette, marital dynamics, introductions at gatherings; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

At a party, a woman named Sheila is surprised to see her husband; another woman, Mrs. Tuttle, greets guests including Mr. Van Fleet, and a man named Clifford arrives. A woman in a dark dress accepts a dance invitation from Mr. Van Fleet.

“Sheila, this is a surprise. I can't see why it's surprising for a man to find his own wife at a party where he is himself.” 46:21 · “Well, Mrs. Tuttle, how very charming. I didn't think you'd mind, Miss Van Orden, since my husband is such a welcome guest.” 46:32 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 46:56 (passage 46:18–47:33); US record: No renewal found

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