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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 136 · permalink

Living room

36:23–36:49 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 36:2836:28Frame at 36:3636:36Frame at 36:4536:45

Play from 36:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 350–352. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing a suit, tie, and hat, medium build visible, audible
  • Mary (named at t:36:24): woman, wearing a patterned dress with a ruffled collar, holding a book visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands and removes his hat while speaking to the woman seated on the couch. [frame:1]
  • The man sits beside the woman on the couch and continues speaking. [frame:2]
  • The man leans back and gestures with his arm while speaking. [frame:3]
Also said
“Don't tell me you're just beginning to appreciate my fate” 36:35 · “After a start like that, you know you're not going to get away without telling me.” 36:46
Seen
couch, hat, book, window, ivy wall decoration
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly tense; themes: personal conversation, uncertainty, interpersonal dynamics; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, classic 1930s framing with characters centered on couch

A man and a woman are seated on a couch in an interior setting, conversing. The man, wearing a suit and hat, speaks to the woman, who is dressed in a patterned dress and holds a book.

“Hi Mary. Hello Bobby. This is inside. Yeah I know.” 36:24 · “Mind if I sit down here for a moment?” 36:29 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 36:28 (passage 36:23–36:49); US record: No renewal found

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