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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 68 · permalink

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17:53–18:05 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:5717:57Frame at 18:0318:03

Play from 17:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 149–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing light-colored long-sleeve shirt and light pants, holding a cane visible
  • Mr. Gray (named at t:17:59): older man, light hair, wearing dark suit, white shirt, and bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“- Mr. Gray,” 17:59 · “A big, wonderful dream.” 18:00
Seen
cane [frame:1], paneled door [frame:1], decorative foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: social interaction, dreams, justice; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast studio lighting, period costume

Two men stand in an interior space with decorative foliage and a paneled door; one wears light clothing and holds a cane, the other wears a dark suit and bow tie. One man is addressed as 'Mr. Gray' during a brief exchange that includes remarks about justice and dreams.

“That's funny.” 17:55 · “It's all justice.” 17:58 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 17:57 (passage 17:53–18:05); US record: No renewal found

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