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Brideless Groom · Beat 26 · permalink

Living room

12:41–12:47 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 12:4212:42Frame at 12:4512:45

Play from 12:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 78–79. 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 with dark hair and glasses, wearing dark clothing, covering his face with his hand visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing, seen from behind or side visible
Seen happening
  • A man covers his face with his hand. [frame:1]
  • Another man stands nearby, partially visible. [frame:2]
Seen
framed picture on wall [frame:2], furniture (possibly a piano or table) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or apologetic; themes: apology, distress, interpersonal tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up framing, studio lighting

A man covers his face in distress while another man stands nearby; the transcript includes apologetic exclamations. The setting appears to be an interior room with furniture and a framed picture on the wall.

“Oh!” 12:42 · “Oh, I'm awful. Sorry. So am I.” 12:43 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 12:42 (passage 12:41–12:47); US record: No renewal found

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