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Brideless Groom · Beat 38 · permalink

Living room

14:37–14:51 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:3814:38Frame at 14:4114:41Frame at 14:4314:43Frame at 14:5114:51

Play from 14:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 97–102. 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
  • woman, dark dress, hair up, holding birdcage visible
  • person in dark suit, bent over, struck by birdcage visible
  • woman, light dress, curly hair, holding birdcage with man inside visible
  • man, in birdcage, wearing suit and tie visible
  • woman, dark uniform, hat, speaking visible
  • woman, dark uniform, back to camera visible
  • woman, dark uniform, side view visible
Seen happening
  • A woman strikes another person with a birdcage. [frame:1]
  • The struck person bends over in pain. [frame:2]
  • A woman holds up a birdcage containing a man. [frame:3]
  • Three women in uniform stand together, one speaking. [frame:4]
Seen
birdcage, birdcage, curtains, mirror, uniforms
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: slapstick, absurdity, gender roles; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, physical comedy staging

A woman in a dark dress strikes another person with a birdcage; the struck person bends over. Another woman holds up the birdcage, revealing a man inside. Three women in uniform-like attire stand together, one speaking.

“Oh, my goodness.” 14:39 · “Ow! Oh! Oh, no!” 14:47 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 14:38 (passage 14:37–14:51); US record: No renewal found

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