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Heartbeat · Beat 137 · permalink

Ballroom

35:32–35:56 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 35:3635:36Frame at 35:4435:44Frame at 35:5235:52

Play from 35:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 299–301. 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 in dark formal suit, short dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman with blonde curly hair, wearing light formal dress with floral detail, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are dancing closely in a crowded room. [frame:1]
Also said
“Speaking of my website,” 35:49 · “needs them to go home.” 35:50
Seen
formal dress [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], crowd of dancers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and slightly tense; themes: social gathering, personal desire to leave, interruption of music; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, crowded background

A man and a woman are dancing closely in a crowded room; the woman speaks about leaving and hearing music stop. No names are given in the transcript, and the setting appears to be a formal social gathering.

“I give a most irresistible desire to leave.” 35:41 · “I stopped hearing the music.” 35:44 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 35:36 (passage 35:32–35:56); US record: No renewal found

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