Public Reel

Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 108 · permalink

Theatre

29:17–29:30 Registered 1934

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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:1829:18Frame at 29:2129:21Frame at 29:2629:26

Play from 29:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 277–279. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress, seated at a desk visible
  • man in light shirt and trousers, seated behind p1 visible
  • man in dark tuxedo with bow tie, standing visible
  • woman with blonde curled hair, wearing a gown with a sash visible
  • man in dark suit, standing beside p4 visible
  • man in dark shirt, seated in audience visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits at a desk smiling while others watch. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo sings beside a woman in a gown. [frame:2]
  • Two men and a woman stand together on stage before an audience. [frame:3]
Also said
“Bearing and bear down. Be the irresistible baby doll.” 29:23
Seen
desk, window with blinds, framed portraits on wall, stage lighting, audience seating
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and performative; themes: performance, audience, theatrical direction; style notes: staged theatrical lighting, medium and wide shots, black-and-white film stock, formal attire suggesting a performance or rehearsal

A woman in a light dress sits at a desk while others watch; later, a man in a tuxedo stands beside a woman in a gown as he sings, and finally, two men and a woman stand together in front of an audience. No names are spoken that identify the individuals.

“Long, I'm a long deer” 29:17 · “Come, let my hair down.” 29:20 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Girl O' My Dreams (1934) at 29:18 (passage 29:17–29:30); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/girl_o_my_dreams/b108.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite