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Heartbeat · Beat 111 · permalink

Ballroom

31:09–31:23 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence. 3 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.

Frame at 31:1131:11Frame at 31:1431:14Frame at 31:1831:18Frame at 31:2131:21

Play from 31:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 256–260. 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 with slicked-back hair, wearing tuxedo and bow tie, holding a white flower visible
  • older man with mustache, wearing tuxedo and bow tie, dancing visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair and pearl earrings, seen in profile visible
  • blonde woman with curled hair, wearing light dress, dancing with man seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • Man in tuxedo holds white flower near woman's face. [frame:1]
  • Man with mustache speaks while dancing with woman. [frame:2]
  • Man with mustache looks upward while dancing. [frame:3]
  • Blonde woman dances with man seen from behind. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 31:16
Seen
white flower, tuxedo with bow tie, pearl earrings, curled blonde hair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, emotionally charged; themes: social ritual, emotional reaction, dance as interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, ballroom setting

A man in formal wear is seen in close-up with a woman holding a white flower; another man with a mustache speaks while dancing; a blonde woman dances with a man seen from behind. The transcript includes brief spoken lines: 'Amen,' 'I'm sorry,' and 'Oh, my God.'

“Amen.” 31:10 · “I'm sorry.” 31:10 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 Heartbeat (1946) at 31:11 (passage 31:09–31:23); US record: No renewal found

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