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A Bride for Henry · Beat 59 · permalink

Poolside

25:34–26:29 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; 4 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 26:0126:01

Play from 25:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 91–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
poolside (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Henry (named at t:26:08): man, adult, wearing a robe with white trim, standing visible, audible
  • woman, adult, seated, wearing light-colored clothing, holding a glass visible, audible
  • Peter (named at t:26:00): unseen, referenced in dialogue mentioned
  • Eric (named at t:26:00): unseen, referenced in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a robe stands beside a seated woman near a pool. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, hello, Peter. Hi, Eric. Hi. Well, what do you make of that? Oh, my God.” 26:00 · “Well, I didn't know you could swim, Henry. I thought if you fell in the water, you'd drown. Well, you see, I... You see, it was like this. When he was six feet old, his father took him out in a boat and threw him into 11 years of water. And it's been sink or swim ever since. Thanks, old boy. I've had breakfast. I'll see you later.” 26:08
Seen
robe [frame:1], pool [frame:1], glass [frame:1], outdoor furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, conversational; themes: social interaction, humor through exaggeration, character backstory; style notes: medium shot, outdoor daylight, static framing, black-and-white film

A man in a robe stands beside a seated woman near a pool while dialogue references swimming and past events. The transcript includes exclamations and character greetings, including a mention of 'Henry' and 'Peter'.

“Oh, my God. That's one more.” 25:40 · “Now, show it over. Oh, my God. Thank you. Where are you going now? What's going on? I have a date with a couple of remnants. Oh, my God.” 25:44 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 26:01 (passage 25:34–26:29); US record: No renewal found

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