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Heartbeat · Beat 120 · permalink

Ballroom

32:02–32:26 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; 2 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 32:1432:14

Play from 32:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 271–271. 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
Time of day
night evidence: t:32:04
Period
1940s evidence: film release date 1946
People
  • woman, light hair, wearing a formal dress with floral embellishments and a flower in her hair visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo with a bow tie and boutonniere visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand close together at a formal event, conversing. [frame:1]
Also said
“Five past 10.” 32:16 · “I'm going to go.” 32:19
Seen
formal dress with floral embellishments, tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere, flower in hair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense yet polite; themes: social obligation, time pressure, romantic tension; style notes: close two-shot, formal attire, studio lighting, black-and-white film grain

A man and a woman in formal attire converse at a social gathering; the woman appears anxious about the time, and the man reassures her. The setting is an indoor event with other guests visible in the background.

“Is it 10 o'clock?” 32:04 · “You have lots of time.” 32:06 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 32:14 (passage 32:02–32:26); US record: No renewal found

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