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A Bride for Henry · Beat 35 · permalink

Living room

14:51–15:05 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 14:5514:55Frame at 14:5914:59Frame at 15:0215:02

Play from 14:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 55–57. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in light-colored suit jacket and trousers, holding a tray with champagne bottle and glasses visible
  • man in dark suit, standing with hands in pockets visible
  • Sheila (named at t:14:57): woman in patterned dress, standing near table visible
  • man in uniform-style jacket, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in light suit, speaking off-screen or entering frame audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a tray with champagne and glasses while another man stands behind him. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light suit walks across the room holding a glass. [frame:2]
  • A man pours champagne into a glass while others watch. [frame:3]
Seen
champagne bottle, tray with glasses, flower arrangement, armchairs and sofa, window with curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and social; themes: hospitality, social gathering, surprise gift; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, staged domestic setting

A man serves champagne from a tray to guests in a living room. Another man says he will get another glass while a woman and two men stand nearby.

“Another surprise, Sheila. Champagne. And from Uncle Fred.” 14:57 · “I'll get another glass.” 15:03 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 14:55 (passage 14:51–15:05); US record: No renewal found

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