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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 184 · permalink

Private office

45:15–45:54 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; 6 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 45:1845:18Frame at 45:3845:38Frame at 45:5445:54

Play from 45:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 442–444. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, standing near doorway visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near doorway visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar, dancing visible
  • man with light hair, dancing, wearing dark suit visible
  • man seated at desk, light hair, wearing suit visible
  • man reclining in chair, wearing hat and suit visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand near a doorway and appear to converse. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man dance together indoors. [frame:2]
  • A man sits at a desk while another man reclines nearby in an office. [frame:3]
Also said
“Have you ever been engaged? No, no, but I had the measles once. We'll be so happy running the newspaper together. Yes, yes, we're going to be so happy together.” 45:28 · “Can you imagine those two fellas getting in a jam like that?” 45:51
Seen
doorway with glass panes, balustrade, dance floor or stage, desk with papers and lamp, window blinds, sign on door reading 'NO ADMITTANCE'
On screen
NO ADMITTANCE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational, with a hint of romantic or professional optimism; themes: romantic engagement, professional partnership, humor through non sequitur; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costumes and set design

Two men in suits talk near a doorway; a woman and a man dance indoors; a man sits at a desk in an office with another man reclining nearby. The transcript includes dialogue about engagement, happiness, and a newspaper, and a mention of two men getting into a jam.

“Well, I guess I should say something.” 45:15 · “I think engagement is wonderful, don't you? Well, I always liked clams' powder.” 45:21 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 45:18 (passage 45:15–45:54); US record: No renewal found

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