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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 64 · permalink

Living room

16:42–17:03 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; 5 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 16:4716:47Frame at 16:5416:54Frame at 17:0017:00

Play from 16:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 26 · shots 141–143. 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:2
People
  • Larry Hinge (named at t:16:52): man in dark suit, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, seated, light hair visible
  • Gwen (named at t:17:02): woman in patterned dress, seated visible
  • man in light shirt, seated, arm around p3 visible
  • man in light shirt, seated, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit gestures toward a table while standing. [frame:1]
  • The man stands on a raised platform holding a chime, addressing seated guests. [frame:2]
  • The man turns away from the guests, facing a fireplace. [frame:3]
Also said
“is little old Larry Hinge.” 16:52 · “- Why, Gwen, how can you sit there so calmly when I make an entrance? Isn't your heart doing nipples? - Oh, Spector.” 17:02
Seen
chime [frame:2], fireplace [frame:3], sofa [frame:2], vase with flowers [frame:2], table lamp [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic; themes: theatrical entrance, social interaction, humor through exaggeration; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, formal attire

A man in a suit enters a room and addresses seated guests, who react with surprise and amusement. The transcript includes dialogue about his entrance and a comment on someone's calm demeanor.

“Oh, my.” 16:43 · “Hello everybody.” 16:46 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 16:47 (passage 16:42–17:03); US record: No renewal found

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