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Brideless Groom · Beat 14 · permalink

Living room

6:48–7:40 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; 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 6:506:50Frame at 7:157:15Frame at 7:337:33Frame at 7:397:39

Play from 6:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 2 · shots 33–39. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in suit, glasses, medium build visible, audible
  • Shep (named at t:7:14): man in light shirt and vest, shaving visible
  • man in suit, partially visible visible
  • man in light shirt, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men stand together in a room, one speaking. [frame:2]
  • A man in a vest is shaving while another man holds his arm. [frame:3]
  • A man applies shaving cream to his face. [frame:4]
Also said
“Miss Hopkins, did you hear that kid? And good looking too. Go get her, Shep.” 7:14 · “Stand still, will you? We gotta get going. It's 3 o'clock now. Yeah? And if you don't matter a girl by 6 o'clock, we're out of the money.” 7:30
Seen
clock, bookcase, lamp, shaving cream
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and comedic; themes: time pressure, romantic pursuit, grooming for an occasion; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man is urged to prepare for a deadline while others discuss a woman named Miss Hopkins. The group is in a room with furniture and a clock, and one man is being groomed.

“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 · “Who's the new dame? A Miss Hopkins.” 7:12 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 6:50 (passage 6:48–7:40); US record: No renewal found

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