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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 236 · permalink

Track

54:11–54:18 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:1254:12Frame at 54:1654:16

Play from 54:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 560–561. 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 runner in white shorts and sleeveless top, mid-stride visible
  • female spectator in polka-dot dress, smiling visible
  • male spectator in hat and coat, standing behind runners visible
  • unspecified person audible
  • unspecified person audible
Seen happening
  • Runners compete on a marked track. [frame:1]
  • Spectators watch the race from stands. [frame:2]
Seen
track lanes [frame:1], spectator stands [frame:2], polka-dot dress [frame:2], white hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and competitive; themes: sports competition, spectator engagement; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high contrast lighting

A track race is underway with runners on a marked track while spectators watch from the stands. Two lines of dialogue are spoken during this interval: one urging someone on and another refusing.

“Come on, man!” 54:13 · “No!” 54:17 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 54:12 (passage 54:11–54:18); US record: No renewal found

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