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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 234 · permalink

Track

53:37–53:52 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; 7 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 53:4253:42Frame at 53:4853:48Frame at 53:5153:51

Play from 53:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 551–553. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
track (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in white singlet with 'R' and number 3, dark hair, athletic build visible
  • man in white singlet with 'M', dark hair, athletic build visible
  • man in straw hat, partially visible behind p1 and p2 visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing at trackside visible
  • man in white uniform and cap, holding starting pistol visible
  • runners in singlets, crouched at starting lines visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two athletes stand and talk while a man in a hat watches. [frame:1]
  • The two athletes adjust their positions; one looks down. [frame:2]
  • Runners crouch at starting lines on a track; officials stand nearby. [frame:3]
Also said
“follow me.” 53:45 · “Come to your marks.” 53:47
Seen
athletic singlets [frame:1], straw hat [frame:1], starting pistol [frame:3], starting blocks [frame:3], track with white lines [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory; themes: competition, preparation, sports; style notes: medium close-ups on athletes, wide shot of starting line; high-contrast black-and-white; static camera

Two men in athletic singlets talk while a third man in a hat stands behind them; then a group of runners crouch at starting lines on a track. A voice directs them to take positions and get ready.

“Hey, what you got?” 53:40 · “What it takes to break a record.” 53:42 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 53:42 (passage 53:37–53:52); US record: No renewal found

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