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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 109 · permalink

Private office

29:30–30:19 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:3129:31Frame at 29:4829:48Frame at 29:5929:59Frame at 30:1630:16

Play from 29:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 280–288. 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:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark sweater with number 37 and light pants visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark sweater with letter R and bow tie, light pants visible
  • woman, blonde curly hair, wearing a patterned dress with a belt visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a sweater with number 37 looks down. [frame:1]
  • Three people stand in a room: a man in a black t-shirt, a woman in a dress, and a man in a sweater with an R. [frame:2]
  • The man in the black t-shirt embraces the woman while the man in the R sweater watches. [frame:3]
  • The man in the R sweater touches the face of the man in the black t-shirt. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now what a swell thing.” 29:38 · “Amen.” 29:40
Seen
sweater with number 37 [frame:1], sweater with letter R [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], window with blinds [frame:4], desk or table with objects [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and theatrical; themes: romantic tension, male rivalry, emotional confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged blocking typical of early sound films

A man in a sweater with the number 37 is shown in a room with two other people; one man in a sweater with an 'R' and a woman in a dress. The man in the 37 sweater is later seen being touched on the face by the man in the 'R' sweater. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue with no clear narrative.

“Thou art my baby.” 29:32 · “Thou hast been knocked down” 29:35 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 29:31 (passage 29:30–30:19); US record: No renewal found

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