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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 167 · permalink

Living room

42:17–42:35 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2042:20Frame at 42:2942:29

Play from 42:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 415–416. 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
  • woman with dark curled hair, wearing a light blouse and patterned scarf, later a floral dress; appears young adult visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie; appears young adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits looking down while a man sits beside her with his arm on the back of the couch. [frame:1]
  • The same woman now smiles up at the man, who is speaking with an open mouth. [frame:2]
Also said
“but I don't want to. Give me your opinion.” 42:28
Seen
couch, patterned scarf, floral dress, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense yet intimate; themes: interpersonal negotiation, romantic tension; style notes: medium two-shots, studio lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

A man and a woman sit together on a couch in two different shots; the woman appears pensive in the first and smiling in the second while the man speaks. Transcript lines indicate a brief, unresolved exchange about giving a piece and asking for an opinion.

“No.” 42:26 · “Give me a piece.” 42:26 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 42:20 (passage 42:17–42:35); US record: No renewal found

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