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A Bride for Henry · Beat 121 · permalink

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48:47–49:25 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:5448:54Frame at 49:0849:08Frame at 49:1749:17Frame at 49:2349:23

Play from 48:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 206–212. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Woman with blonde, styled hair, wearing a dark, sleeveless evening gown with a floral corsage on her left shoulder. visible
  • Man with dark, slicked-back hair, wearing a white dinner jacket, black bow tie, and a dark floral boutonniere on his left lapel. visible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand facing each other, looking at one another. [frame:1]
  • The man raises his right hand and gently touches the woman's left shoulder. [frame:3]
  • The man keeps his hand on the woman's shoulder while smiling at her. [frame:4]
Seen
white dinner jacket [frame:1], black bow tie [frame:1], floral boutonniere [frame:1], dark sleeveless evening gown [frame:1], floral corsage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and intimate; themes: romance, formal courtship, intimacy; style notes: Close-up framing emphasizes the couple's interaction; high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films; static camera focuses on subtle gestures.

A man and a woman in formal evening wear stand close together outdoors at night; the man gently touches the woman's shoulder. No names are spoken, and no specific location or time of day is established beyond the dark background suggesting nighttime.

“Pound trees sway while treadwinds sigh. Soft guitars of lullaby.” 48:57 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 48:54 (passage 48:47–49:25); US record: No renewal found

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