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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 199 · permalink

Field

47:51–48:14 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; 4 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 47:5447:54Frame at 47:5847:58Frame at 48:0448:04Frame at 48:1048:10

Play from 47:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 469–473. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • Bobby Barnes (named at t:48:00): male athlete, young, wearing a sleeveless athletic jersey and shorts visible
  • male spectator, wearing a light-colored shirt and a fedora, seated on a bench visible
  • female spectator, standing, wearing a light-colored dress and holding a program or booklet visible
  • crowd of spectators, men and women in 1930s attire, seated in bleachers visible
Seen happening
  • An athlete clears a high bar in a pole vault [frame:1]
  • The athlete lands on a gravel pit and smiles [frame:2]
  • Spectators watch from a bench and field [frame:3]
  • A crowd of spectators in bleachers watches the event [frame:4]
Also said
“That a bite, Bobby.” 48:10 · “Hey!” 47:55
Seen
high bar [frame:1], gravel pit [frame:2], bench [frame:3], bleachers [frame:4], fedora [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: energetic and celebratory; themes: athletic achievement, spectator culture, 1930s sports; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, outdoor lighting, period costumes

A male athlete clears a high bar and lands on a gravel pit while spectators watch from bleachers and a bench. A voice identifies him as Bobby Barnes of Raleigh and cheers him on.

“That was Bobby Barnes of Raleigh. He cleared the bar in the pool of all.” 48:00 · “And a boy, Bobby! And a boy, Bobby!” 48:05 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 47:54 (passage 47:51–48:14); US record: No renewal found

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