Public Reel

A Bride for Henry · Beat 68 · permalink

Garden

28:30–28:54 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; 2 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 28:4228:42

Play from 28:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 107–107. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark wavy hair, wearing a light-colored short-sleeved blouse and light pants visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit jacket with striped tie and white pocket square, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated outdoors talking. [frame:1]
Also said
“How do you think I feel hearing people call you Mrs. Tuttle? Tuttle? Such a silly name.” 28:38 · “Well, now, wait a minute. What do you think about the time that you... Well, there's Henry. We never get rid of that fellow. And with a blonde.” 28:38
Seen
suit jacket [frame:1], striped tie [frame:1], pocket square [frame:1], light blouse [frame:1], light pants [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: marital confusion, social reputation, interruption by third party; style notes: medium two-shot, natural outdoor lighting, period costume, static framing

A man and a woman sit outdoors in conversation; the man mentions another man named Henry arriving with a blonde. The dialogue references a fictional marriage to someone named Tuttle.

“Sheila, we can't go on with this impossible situation.” 28:31 · “I'm gonna have a word with Tuttle tonight and put an end to this whole fantastic episode.” 28:34 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from A Bride for Henry (1937) at 28:42 (passage 28:30–28:54); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/bride_for_henry_ipod/b68.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite