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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 16 · permalink

Field

2:12–2:32 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:162:16Frame at 2:222:22Frame at 2:282:28

Play from 2:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 18–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white athletic singlet and shorts, dark hair, average build visible
  • man in dark suit and white hat, back to camera visible
  • man in dark suit and white hat, side view visible
  • woman with short blonde hair, wearing dark dress or suit, standing behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in athletic wear stands on a track while two men in hats observe him. [frame:1]
  • The woman approaches and stands behind the athlete as the men continue to watch. [frame:2]
  • The woman assists the athlete into a crouching position. [frame:3]
Also said
“so the boys can see how I get that leg dry.” 2:20 · “crouching at the start.” 2:27
Seen
track with white lines [frame:1], hay bales or stacked material in background [frame:1], white hat [frame:1], camera or filming equipment (partially visible) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: instructional and collaborative; themes: filmmaking process, athletic performance, directed posing; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, outdoor natural lighting, staged action

A man in athletic attire stands on a track while others observe and give directions; a woman in dark clothing assists him into a crouching position. The transcript indicates instructions are being given for a pose or action, with references to 'the boys' and 'how I get that leg dry.'

“Get it, boys?” 2:13 · “Maybe you'd better take another one.” 2:18 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 2:16 (passage 2:12–2:32); US record: No renewal found

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