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Heartbeat · Beat 125 · permalink

Ballroom

33:57–34:18 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:0234:02Frame at 34:1234:12

Play from 33:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 283–284. 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
  • Roland Lettus (named at t:34:08): man in tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in light formal gown with flower headpiece, blonde hair visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, light hair, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands between two men at a buffet table in a crowded hall. [frame:1]
  • The men face each other while the woman smiles; one man gestures toward the other. [frame:2]
Also said
“- I'm happy to meet you, man.” 34:10 · “Here. I'll wait right here.” 34:13
Seen
chandelier, buffet table with food and heart-shaped server, formal gown with flower headpiece, tuxedos
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: socially tense but polite; themes: introductions, social hierarchy, formal events; style notes: formal framing, medium shot, high-key studio lighting, symmetrical composition around the woman

A woman in a formal gown stands between two men in tuxedos at a crowded event; one man introduces the other as Roland Lettus. The setting appears to be a large, ornate hall with chandeliers and a buffet table.

“And with a little of yield, let me introduce to you my worthless” 34:05 · “friend. Roland Lettus.” 34:08 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 34:02 (passage 33:57–34:18); US record: No renewal found

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