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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 185 · permalink

Private office

45:54–46:13 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 45:5845:58Frame at 46:0446:04Frame at 46:0746:07Frame at 46:1146:11

Play from 45:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 445–448. 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:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora, dark sweater with number 3, reclining with feet up visible
  • man with light hair, wearing a sweater and tie, seated at a desk holding papers visible
Seen happening
  • A man reclines at a desk with his feet up. [frame:1]
  • The man in the hat gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The second man looks up from papers with a surprised expression. [frame:3]
  • The two men are shown together in a wider shot, continuing their interaction. [frame:4]
Also said
“Why don't you speak to me?” 46:04 · “Oh, never been engaged. Get out, sweetheart.” 46:09
Seen
desk [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], sweater with number 3 [frame:1], papers [frame:3], door with sign 'SENATE INVESTIGATION' [frame:1], window blinds [frame:4]
On screen
SENATE INVESTIGATION
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: romantic conflict, office setting, dialogue-driven; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man in a hat reclines at a desk while another man in a sweater reads a paper; dialogue suggests a conversation about engagement and a 'wrong girl'. The setting is an office with desks, papers, and a door marked 'SENATE INVESTIGATION'.

“Bad enough being engaged, but when it's a wrong girl...” 45:55 · “Well, don't you with me?” 46:01 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 45:58 (passage 45:54–46:13); US record: No renewal found

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