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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 106 · permalink

Private office

28:30–28:56 Registered 1934

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; 3 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 28:3328:33Frame at 28:3728:37Frame at 28:4728:47Frame at 28:5228:52

Play from 28:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 46 · shots 265–269. 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 formal suit and bow tie, standing, mid-adult visible
  • young man with light hair, wearing sweater over collared shirt visible
  • woman with blonde curled hair, wearing patterned blouse with flower in hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man in formal attire stands before an audience and gestures with his hands. [frame:1]
  • A young man looks down, appearing contemplative or distressed. [frame:2]
  • A woman with a flower in her hair looks forward with a neutral expression. [frame:3]
  • The man in formal attire continues speaking to the audience with open mouth and raised hands. [frame:4]
Also said
“Thou art my baby. Thou hast been knocked down.” 28:43 · “Now what a swelter!” 28:49
Seen
framed pictures on wall [frame:1], desk with papers and objects [frame:1], flower in woman's hair [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and theatrical; themes: performance, personal address, emotional declaration; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal staging

A man in formal attire speaks to an audience in a room with framed pictures, while a young man and a woman are shown in separate close-ups. The transcript includes fragmented lines referencing 'John Alden' and a character speaking for himself, with exclamations about being knocked down and a 'swelter'.

“till in a fit of feet he called him, that pilgrim sheep John Alden.” 28:30 · “And this is how young John spoke for himself.” 28:39 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 Girl O' My Dreams (1934) at 28:33 (passage 28:30–28:56); US record: No renewal found

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