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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 55 · permalink

Living room

14:14–14:39 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:2214:22Frame at 14:3514:35

Play from 14:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 124–125. 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
  • woman, dark hair styled in a bob, wearing a patterned dress with a dark collar visible, audible
  • man, short dark hair, wearing a light-colored long-sleeve shirt and light pants, holding a small object visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man holds a small object and gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks at the man as he speaks. [frame:1]
  • The man continues to hold the object and speaks while the woman listens. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, that music.” 14:26 · “always reminds me of the night we stole away from the kai-fi dance.” 14:28
Seen
couch [frame:1], small object held by man [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and conversational; themes: memory, romantic reminiscence, casual domestic interaction; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, soft lighting, black-and-white film aesthetic

A man and a woman sit together on a couch; the man holds a small object and speaks about keeping his forearm and wrist in shape while the woman listens. They discuss music that reminds them of a past event, specifically a night they stole away from a kai-fi dance a year ago.

“Isn't it lovely out here? Mm-hmm.” 14:14 · “Oh, just no hand grip. You know, I gotta keep the forearm and wrist in shape.” 14:20 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 14:22 (passage 14:14–14:39); US record: No renewal found

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