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Brideless Groom · Beat 13 · permalink

Private office

6:24–6:48 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; 3 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 6:286:28Frame at 6:386:38Frame at 6:446:44Frame at 6:466:46

Play from 6:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 29–32. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, medium build, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible, audible
  • man with exaggerated facial features, wearing bow tie, visible in frame:3 visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat grabs another man's face. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit and a woman stand facing each other, the man holding a small object. [frame:2]
  • A man with a distorted face peers through a doorway. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit and the woman stand together, looking at each other. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh!” 6:45 · “You've got to get out of us. All right. There isn't much time left. You know that, don't you? All right. What happened?” 6:48
Seen
hat [frame:1], suit [frame:2], dark dress with white collar [frame:2], distorted face prop [frame:3], doorway [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: marriage proposal, physical comedy, urgency; style notes: close-ups, high-contrast lighting, exaggerated expressions

Two men and a woman are in a room; one man is grabbed by the face, another is seen with a distorted face, and the woman speaks to the man in the suit. The dialogue suggests a proposal and urgency to leave.

“Get your hand out of my face. That ain't my hand, it's your hand. All right, you asked for it.” 6:26 · “Would you like to get married? What? Get married. Well, I don't know. But you are kind of cute at that. Oh, it's not me. It's him.” 6:36 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 6:28 (passage 6:24–6:48); US record: No renewal found

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