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Girl O' My Dreams · Beat 98 · permalink

Field

26:02–26:27 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:0726:07Frame at 26:1526:15Frame at 26:2326:23

Play from 26:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 238–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white shirt and cap, back to camera, directing visible
  • man in tank top with 'R' on it, standing center visible
  • woman in plaid skirt and light top, standing near p2 visible
  • woman in light dress, standing near p2 visible
  • man in suit and hat, partially visible left visible
  • Mr. Sirius (named at t:26:09): man in suit and hat, standing right, addressing p1 visible, audible
  • group of men and women watching, some in athletic wear visible
Seen happening
  • The group is posing as instructed, with arms up and looking up. [frame:3]
Also said
“See? Now put your arms up here this way.” 26:15 · “You two girls hang on to 'em, then kinda look up at 'em like that, see?” 26:17
Seen
camera on tripod [frame:1], tank top with 'R' [frame:2], plaid skirt [frame:3], white caps [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and collaborative; themes: film production, directing, group coordination; style notes: medium group shot, outdoor daylight, staged posing, black and white film

A man in a white shirt and cap directs two women and a man in a tank top for a photo or scene setup outdoors, while others watch. The director gives instructions about posing, and someone addresses him as 'Mr. Sirius.'

“Say, would you girls mind helping me out a little bit? Yeah! Just a minute! Just a minute!” 26:02 · “Mr. Sirius.” 26:09 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 26:07 (passage 26:02–26:27); US record: No renewal found

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