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Brideless Groom · Beat 21 · permalink

Private office

9:48–10:24 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; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:509:50Frame at 9:529:52Frame at 10:0810:08Frame at 10:2010:20

Play from 9:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 59–63. 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
People
  • man in dark suit, balding, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with blonde hair in updo, wearing dark dress visible
  • man in dark suit, balding, medium build, peeking from behind door visible
Seen happening
  • A man opens a door and greets a woman. [frame:1]
  • A man peeks from behind a door and points. [frame:2]
  • A man and woman embrace and kiss. [frame:3]
  • A man grabs another man's face and kisses him. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh boy, success!” 10:16 · “Cut it.” 10:22
Seen
door, chairs, flowers, picture frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic; themes: mistaken identity, film production, romantic farce; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, physical comedy

A man in a suit opens a door and greets a woman; they embrace while another man watches from behind a door. A director calls 'Cut it' after the scene.

“Help me.” 9:52 · “Hello. Oh, hello. Come in. Cousin Basil. Oh, I'm so happy to see you. I, I... I've just been dying to meet you. You're even cuter than that lady said you were.” 9:56 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 9:50 (passage 9:48–10:24); US record: No renewal found

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