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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 235 · permalink

Track

53:52–54:11 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 7 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 53:5353:53Frame at 54:0054:00Frame at 54:0354:03Frame at 54:0954:09

Play from 53:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 554–559. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • male athlete, wearing singlet with number 5, running visible
  • male athlete, wearing singlet with number 4, jumping hurdle visible
  • male athlete, wearing singlet with number 3, running visible
  • male athlete, wearing singlet with number 2, jumping hurdle visible
  • male athlete, wearing singlet with number 1, running visible
  • spectators in bleachers, indistinct visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Athletes run toward hurdles on a track. [frame:1]
  • Athletes jump over hurdles in separate lanes. [frame:2]
  • One athlete clears a hurdle while others trail behind. [frame:3]
  • Athletes continue racing past hurdles with spectators watching. [frame:4]
Seen
hurdles, track lanes, bleachers, athletic singlets with numbers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: competitive; themes: sports, competition, physical exertion; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of action, dynamic framing of athletes in motion

Athletes in numbered singlets run and jump over hurdles on a track with spectators in bleachers. A voice says, "That's what he means in mankind," during the sequence.

“That's what he means in mankind.” 53:54 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 53:53 (passage 53:52–54:11); US record: No renewal found

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