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Heartbeat · Beat 112 · permalink

Ballroom

31:23–31:41 Registered 1946

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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:2531:25Frame at 31:3231:32Frame at 31:3831:38

Play from 31:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 261–263. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in tuxedo, mustache, older, balding visible, audible
  • woman with pearl necklace, dark hair, formal dress visible
  • young woman with blonde curly hair, white flower in hair, light dress visible
  • young man in tuxedo, dark hair, clean-shaven visible
  • woman with blonde hair, visible over shoulder in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman are seen in profile, standing close in a crowded room. [frame:1]
  • A young couple in formal wear face each other closely, appearing to converse or dance. [frame:2]
  • A man seen from behind, with other dancers visible around him. [frame:3]
Also said
“I must join my uncle at 10 o'clock sharp.” 31:35 · “Ten o'clock.” 31:40
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], pearl necklace [frame:1], white flower in hair [frame:2], formal dresses [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social obligation, romantic tension, time-bound commitment; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal costume design

A man and a woman in formal attire speak at a crowded social gathering; the man mentions needing to join his uncle at 10 o'clock. The setting appears to be an indoor event with multiple couples dancing.

“Come on.” 31:27 · “Am I boring you?” 31:32 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 31:25 (passage 31:23–31:41); US record: No renewal found

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