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Heartbeat · Beat 155 · permalink

Ballroom

38:15–38:43 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:2738:27Frame at 38:4238:42

Play from 38:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 327–328. 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
People
  • man in tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in light-colored formal dress with large floral headpiece, curly hair visible, audible
  • multiple men in tuxedos, seen from back or side in crowd visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman stand close, facing each other in a crowded room. [frame:1]
  • The man turns away from the woman, revealing a crowded ballroom with other couples dancing. [frame:2]
Also said
“Don't you remember? I showed it to you when it was five past ten.” 38:27 · “I never put it in that bucket.” 38:40
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1, frame:2], bow tie [frame:1], floral headpiece [frame:1], boutonniere [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social gathering, mystery of a missing object, time as a clue; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups transitioning to wider shots, formal attire suggests high-society setting, lighting focused on main characters

A man and a woman in formal wear are shown in close proximity during a social gathering; the transcript suggests a conversation about a missing gun and a time reference to five past ten. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be a crowded indoor event.

“I must have been away at peace.” 38:15 · “That's funny, mate. What's his gun?” 38:19 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 38:27 (passage 38:15–38:43); US record: No renewal found

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