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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 161 · permalink

Living room

40:59–41:12 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:0341:03Frame at 41:1041:10

Play from 40:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 404–405. 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, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, dark curly hair, wearing a light dress with a patterned scarf, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man puts his arm around the woman as they sit on a couch. [frame:1]
  • The man smiles while the woman looks down, appearing hesitant. [frame:2]
Seen
couch [frame:1], patterned scarf [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense yet playful; themes: romantic hesitation, social propriety, humor as deflection; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white

A man and a woman sit on a couch; the man has his arm around the woman and speaks to her. The woman responds with hesitation as he invites her to rest her head on his shoulder, then jokes about putting it on his shoes.

“Put your head on my shoulder.” 41:03 · “But, Larry, we shouldn't do this. Go ahead. Put your head on my shoes.” 41:05 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 41:03 (passage 40:59–41:12); US record: No renewal found

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