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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 49 · permalink

Living room

11:26–11:58 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; 2 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 11:3411:34Frame at 11:4711:47Frame at 11:5211:52Frame at 11:5511:55

Play from 11:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 111–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in sweater and light pants, standing, holding a book visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, seated on couch visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands holding a book while another sits on a couch. [frame:1]
  • The standing man gestures with the book toward the seated man. [frame:2]
  • The standing man turns toward a window while the seated man remains on the couch. [frame:3]
  • The seated man adjusts his hat while looking upward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, it's nice to see you crack a book, even if it's only in fun.” 11:43 · “Snap into it. You better get a snap into it and get some clothes on if we're going over to that Theta house.” 11:52
Seen
book [frame:2], couch [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], window with panes [frame:3], hat [frame:4], framed picture on wall [frame:2], flag with letter 'F' [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly comedic; themes: college life, friendship, preparation for social outing; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting

Two men are in a room; one is practicing with a book while the other sits on a couch. One man urges the other to get dressed for a visit to the Theta house.

“Hey, call your shots, will ya?” 11:34 · “Sorry, fellas, just practicing with the old history.” 11:39 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 11:34 (passage 11:26–11:58); US record: No renewal found

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