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Brideless Groom · Beat 17 · permalink

Living room

8:43–9:01 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:508:50Frame at 9:009:00

Play from 8:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 49–50. 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:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a white shirt, seated visible
  • man, curly hair, wearing a suit, standing at an ironing board visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt is seated in a room with bookshelves. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit is ironing. [frame:2]
Also said
“How do you like that?” 8:56 · “Oh.” 8:59
Seen
lamp [frame:1], bookshelf [frame:1], ironing board [frame:2], iron [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to comedic; themes: domestic life, absurdity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting

A man in a white shirt is visible in a room with bookshelves and a lamp; another man in a suit is seen ironing. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“Oh, poor man, seven years old, I've got a look.” 8:46 · “Oh!” 8:53 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 8:50 (passage 8:43–9:01); US record: No renewal found

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