Ballroom
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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 29:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 242–246. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- ballroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere visible
- woman, 20s, blonde, curly hair with floral headpiece, wearing off-shoulder gown visible
- older man, mustache, wearing tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere visible
- woman, 40s-50s, dark hair styled up, wearing dark dress and pearl necklace, holding fan visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a tuxedo looks toward the camera. [frame:1]
- A young woman in a ball gown smiles. [frame:2]
- The young woman and an older man stand together, both looking off-camera. [frame:3]
- A woman with a fan looks at the man in the tuxedo. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “This is her first ball.” 30:05 · “You are to be her first partner.” 30:06
- Seen
- tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], boutonniere [frame:1], ball gown [frame:2], floral headpiece [frame:2], pearl necklace [frame:4], fan [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, anticipatory; themes: social debut, courtship, formal dance; style notes: studio-lit close-ups and medium shots, formal attire, black-and-white film stock
A man in formal attire invites a woman to dance at a ball; another woman observes. The dialogue indicates this is the young woman's first ball and she is to dance with him as her first partner.
“Monsieur de Roche is a smoother dancer as he is a diplomat.” 29:59 · “Don't believe a word of it.” 30:03 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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