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Brideless Groom · Beat 8 · permalink

Private office

4:04–4:15 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:104:10

Play from 4:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 14–14. 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 and bow tie, balding, medium build visible
  • man in light suit, balding, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand together; one hands coins to another. [frame:1]
Also said
“Go ahead.” 4:11
Seen
coins [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: exchange, gambling, male interaction; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

Three men in suits stand indoors; one hands coins to another while speaking. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text is visible.

“Oh!” 4:07 · “Here, here's six nickels. That makes 17. You ought to hit the jackpot with one of them.” 4:08 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 4:10 (passage 4:04–4:15); US record: No renewal found

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