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Brideless Groom · Beat 27 · permalink

Private office

12:47–13:12 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:5912:59Frame at 13:1113:11

Play from 12:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 80–81. 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, standing, holding a long object visible
  • man in dark suit, seated or fallen on floor, legs visible visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near piano, holding something visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near piano, holding something visible
  • man with curly hair, wearing light-colored jacket, standing near center visible
Seen happening
  • A man falls to the floor near a piano while others stand around. [frame:1]
  • A man holds a long object while another lies on the floor. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, my. Oh, piano. Shut up.” 12:59 · “Hey, sit him down. We'll get a new grip.” 12:59
Seen
piano [frame:1], wires [t:12:59], long object [frame:2], door [frame:2], carpet [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: physical comedy, miscommunication, clumsiness; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man is tangled with wires near a piano while others react; one man falls to the floor as another holds a long object. The scene takes place indoors with multiple men in suits and a piano visible.

“Oh!” 12:59 · “Oh, he's all tangled up with wires. All right, well, back him up and we'll break him out of the way.” 12:59 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 12:59 (passage 12:47–13:12); US record: No renewal found

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