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Brideless Groom · Beat 36 · permalink

Private office

14:23–14:36 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; 4 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 14:2414:24Frame at 14:3114:31

Play from 14:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 94–95. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a checkered suit jacket, bow tie, and headband; expressive face visible, audible
  • man, 40s-50s, wearing a dark suit and tie, holding a book or document visible
  • man, 30s-40s, wearing a dark suit and striped tie, reacting with surprise visible
  • woman, partially visible behind p2, wearing a light dress visible
Seen happening
  • A woman raises her hand and pleads with an officiant. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit reacts with surprise while another man holds a book. [frame:2]
Seen
book or document [frame:2], window with curtains [frame:2], checkered suit jacket [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], headband [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and comedic; themes: marriage ceremony, comic urgency, social formality; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged framing typical of 1940s studio comedies

A woman pleads with a man in a suit who appears to be an officiant, while another man in a suit reacts with surprise. The scene takes place indoors, with a window and curtains visible in the background.

“Oh, no, Justice, please. Please. Hurry up.” 14:24 · “Yes, you're just in there. Hold hands, you love bird.” 14:24 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 14:24 (passage 14:23–14:36); US record: No renewal found

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