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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 178 · permalink

Living room

43:47–43:59 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; 3 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 43:5343:53

Play from 43:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 430–430. 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 and bow tie, seated on right visible
  • woman in light dress with lace collar, seated in center, appears distressed visible
  • man in dark suit and light trousers, seated on left, gesturing with right hand visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures while speaking to a woman seated between two men. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks downcast and distressed. [frame:1]
Also said
“Aren't you?” 43:52 · “I don't want to.” 43:54
Seen
sofa [frame:1], decorative plant or tree in background [frame:1], man's suit and bow tie [frame:1], woman's light dress with lace collar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: romantic conflict, social pressure, emotional reluctance; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man in a suit speaks to a woman seated between him and another man; the woman appears distressed. The transcript includes short exchanges about engagement and reluctance.

“Engaged.” 43:49 · “Yes.” 43:51 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 43:53 (passage 43:47–43:59); US record: No renewal found

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