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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 135 · permalink

Living room

36:02–36:23 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; 2 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 36:0536:05Frame at 36:1336:13Frame at 36:2036:20

Play from 36:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 347–349. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, holding a book, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man in light patterned suit with striped tie, mid-30s, average build visible
Seen happening
  • man p1 looks down at a book he is holding [frame:1]
  • man p1 speaks to man p2 while holding the book [frame:2]
  • man p1 and man p2 face each other, both holding the book [frame:3]
Also said
“Ha-ha!” 36:14 · “You're telling me?” 36:16
Seen
book, book, book
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: male friendship, everyday conversation, humor; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

Two men in suits interact indoors; one holds a book and speaks while the other listens. The transcript includes a line about a sale at the Boston store and laughter.

“Hey!” 36:07 · “There's a sale at the Boston store on men's silk underwear.” 36:09 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 36:05 (passage 36:02–36:23); US record: No renewal found

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