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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 188 · permalink

Private office

46:38–46:53 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:4146:41Frame at 46:4646:46Frame at 46:5046:50Frame at 46:5246:52

Play from 46:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 454–457. 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, mid-20s, wearing a sweater, scarf, and hat, smiling visible
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a hat and sweater with '07' on it, seated at desk visible
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a sweater, writing with papers covering his face visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands smiling in an office. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat sits at a desk while another man writes at a separate desk. [frame:2]
  • A man writes with papers covering his face. [frame:3]
  • A man in a hat and sweater gestures while seated at a desk. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well?” 46:48 · “Come on, come on, say something!” 46:51
Seen
desk [frame:2], papers [frame:3], hat [frame:4], sweater with '07' [frame:4], window blinds [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with a hint of tension; themes: office interaction, romantic farewell, workplace dynamics; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A woman in a sweater and scarf stands smiling in an office while a man in a hat sits at a desk; another man is seen writing with papers covering his face. The transcript includes farewells and urging speech.

“Bye, sweetheart.” 46:42 · “Sweetheart.” 46:46 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 46:41 (passage 46:38–46:53); US record: No renewal found

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