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A Bride for Henry · Beat 137 · permalink

Building exterior

56:58–57:20 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:0057:00Frame at 57:0657:06Frame at 57:0857:08Frame at 57:1657:16

Play from 56:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 242–247. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
building exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a peplum waist and a belt, standing on a ledge visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a white suit with a bow tie, leaning forward from a lower level visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands on a stone ledge. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white suit leans forward, looking up. [frame:2]
  • The woman is seen from a distance, standing on a high ledge with the man visible below. [frame:3]
  • The woman and man are shown in a two-shot, separated by stone architecture. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come back here, you little fool! I don't know!” 57:06 · “Don't you come near me! You'll fall! I don't care. I don't care what happens if you're going to divorce me. I'm not going to divorce you, woman.” 57:11
Seen
stone ledge [frame:1], potted plants on balconies [frame:1, frame:3], white suit with bow tie [frame:2, frame:4], light-colored dress with peplum [frame:1, frame:4], window blinds [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: marital conflict, emotional brinkmanship, physical danger as metaphor; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium and long shots emphasizing spatial separation, static camera framing

A woman stands on a stone ledge while a man in a white suit calls to her from below, urging her not to come near him as he fears she will fall. The transcript indicates a heated exchange about divorce, with the man declaring he will not divorce her.

“All right.” 57:00 · “Sheila!” 57:03 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 57:00 (passage 56:58–57:20); US record: No renewal found

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