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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 186 · permalink

Private office

46:13–46:35 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 46:1546:15Frame at 46:2146:21Frame at 46:2946:29Frame at 46:3446:34

Play from 46:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 449–452. 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:2
People
  • woman, wearing a patterned hat, polka-dot scarf, belted cardigan, and light skirt visible
  • Gary (named at t:46:33): man, wearing a dark sweater vest with number 37, bow tie, and bowler hat, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man reads a document at a desk. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands beside a seated man who looks up at her. [frame:2]
  • The woman smiles down at the man. [frame:3]
  • The woman holds a small object near her face while looking at the man. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, Gary!” 46:33 · “Who?” 46:34
Seen
document [frame:1], desk [frame:1], pen [frame:1], blinds [frame:2], sweater vest with number 37 [frame:3], bowler hat [frame:2], patterned hat [frame:2], polka-dot scarf [frame:2], small object held by woman [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and questioning; themes: interpersonal tension, unexpected interruption; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A woman in a patterned hat and polka-dot scarf stands beside a seated man in a sweater vest with the number 37, who looks up at her. The transcript includes exclamations and questions, including someone calling out 'Hey, Gary!' and asking 'Who?'

“Ow!” 46:16 · “What's the matter?” 46:21 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 46:15 (passage 46:13–46:35); US record: No renewal found

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