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A Bride for Henry · Beat 133 · permalink

Private office

55:23–55:43 Registered 1937

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:3355:33

Play from 55:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 238–238. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-20s, wearing a light-colored short-sleeved dress with a collar and belt, standing with hands behind back visible
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a white tuxedo jacket with bow tie and boutonniere, leaning over a suitcase visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man leans over a suitcase while the woman stands beside him. [frame:1]
Also said
“I want divorce you.” 55:37 · “Then I'll divorce you.” 55:39
Seen
suitcase [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: marital conflict, divorce, personal agency; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man and a woman stand in a room with luggage; the man speaks of divorce while the woman listens. The dialogue indicates a shift in the man's intentions regarding their marriage.

“Why are you ordering me to Reno?” 55:23 · “Order you.” 55:25 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 55:33 (passage 55:23–55:43); US record: No renewal found

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