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Heartbeat · Beat 140 · permalink

Ballroom

36:12–36:18 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:1536:15

Play from 36:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 305–305. 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
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a light-colored formal gown with puffed sleeves and a full skirt, walking forward visible
  • man, adult, dark suit, standing with back to camera visible
  • man, adult, in uniform with sash and medals, standing visible
  • woman, adult, light dress, standing in background visible
  • man, adult, dark suit, facing away, standing visible
Seen
chandelier [frame:1], large painting on wall [frame:1], formal gown [frame:1], uniform with medals [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and ceremonial; themes: social hierarchy, formal event, public appearance; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, symmetrical framing with central figure, studio lighting

A woman in a formal gown walks through a crowded, ornate hall while other guests stand or mingle. The setting is an indoor, formal gathering with chandeliers and large paintings visible.

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 36:15 (passage 36:12–36:18); US record: No renewal found

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