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Brideless Groom · Beat 39 · permalink

Private office

14:51–15:11 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:5514:55Frame at 15:0015:00Frame at 15:0315:03Frame at 15:0815:08

Play from 14:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 103–106. 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 suit, balding, holding a gun visible
  • man in suit, dark hair, standing beside p1 visible
  • woman in hat and coat, back to camera visible
  • woman in hat and coat, facing p3 visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, standing beside p4 visible
  • woman in dark dress, sitting at desk, holding gun visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a gun while standing next to another man in a room with firearms on the wall. [frame:1]
  • Three women are gathered, one facing the other two. [frame:2]
  • A man is struck and recoils while another man watches. [frame:3]
  • A woman sits at a desk holding a gun. [frame:4]
Also said
“Will you marry me? Never.” 15:03
Seen
gun [frame:1], firearms on wall [frame:1], hat [frame:2], desk [frame:4], picture frame [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: conflict, marriage proposal, gender roles; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged physical comedy

Two men stand in a room with firearms on the wall as one holds a gun; a woman in a hat is then seen with two other women before a chaotic scene where a man is struck; finally, a woman sits at a desk holding a gun. A proposal is rejected during this sequence.

“You wouldn't hit a lady with that.” 14:53 · “Use this, it's bigger. Oh, no.” 14:55 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 14:55 (passage 14:51–15:11); US record: No renewal found

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