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Brideless Groom · Beat 11 · permalink

Private office

5:40–6:16 Registered 1947

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 5:435:43Frame at 5:565:56Frame at 6:076:07Frame at 6:126:12

Play from 5:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 23–26. 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, frame:3
People
  • man in a suit and tie, curly hair, medium build visible, audible
  • person in dark clothing, face obscured, appears restrained visible
Seen happening
  • Man in suit stands with arms outstretched. [frame:1]
  • Person appears to be restrained and leaning forward. [frame:2]
  • Man in suit looks upward, standing near a vase of flowers. [frame:3]
  • Person in dark clothing is shown with hands bound and head down. [frame:4]
Also said
“All right. Can't stare at him. It started with the book, didn't it?” 6:06 · “Where's your heart?” 6:13
Seen
suit and tie, wall sconce, vase with flowers, restraints on hands
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: conflict, restraint, dialogue-driven; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, dramatic lighting with shadows, static camera

A man in a suit is seen in various poses in an interior room while speaking about a situation involving a book and a heart. Another person is visible in a dark frame, appearing to be restrained.

“Wait a minute. If I come around like this one...” 5:45 · “Well, it don't feel as good as what I did.” 5:52 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 Brideless Groom (1947) at 5:43 (passage 5:40–6:16); US record: No renewal found

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