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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 179 · permalink

Theatre

43:59–44:26 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:0144:01Frame at 44:0944:09Frame at 44:2044:20Frame at 44:2544:25

Play from 43:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 431–434. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, light-colored hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, medium build visible, audible
  • audience members, mostly seen from behind, wearing 1930s-style clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit turns toward the audience. [frame:1]
  • The man addresses the audience while standing at the front. [frame:2]
  • The man gestures with his hand near his face while speaking. [frame:3]
  • The man holds up two fingers while smiling at the audience. [frame:4]
Also said
“Cool off and calm down.” 44:07 · “Ladies and gentlemen, there has been a double pin hanging.” 44:21
Seen
vase with flowers, curtains, suit jacket with pocket square
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and theatrical; themes: public speaking, theatrical presentation, audience engagement; style notes: medium shots, stage-like lighting, formal attire, audience framing suggests a performance or public address

A man in a suit addresses a seated audience in an indoor setting, speaking about recent events including a 'double pin hanging.' The audience is visible from behind, and the speaker gestures while talking.

“Pardon me.” 44:02 · “Ladies and gentlemen, just...” 44:06 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 44:01 (passage 43:59–44:26); US record: No renewal found

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