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Heartbeat · Beat 109 · permalink

Ballroom

31:01–31:06 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:0431:04

Play from 31:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 254–254. 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
  • older man, gray hair, wearing a dark formal suit and bow tie visible
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a dark sequined dress and pearl bracelet visible
  • younger man, light hair, wearing a light-colored suit, visible over p1's shoulder visible
Seen
sequined dress [frame:1], pearl bracelet [frame:1], formal suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, intimate; themes: social dance, formal attire, couple interaction; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black and white, focused on two dancers with shallow depth of field blurring the background crowd

A man and a woman are dancing closely in a crowded ballroom. Other couples are visible in the background, suggesting a formal social gathering.

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 Heartbeat (1946) at 31:04 (passage 31:01–31:06); US record: No renewal found

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