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Heartbeat · Beat 156 · permalink

Ballroom

38:43–39:08 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:4838:48Frame at 38:5638:56Frame at 39:0439:04

Play from 38:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 329–331. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing tuxedo and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing dark formal gown with white collar and gloves visible, audible
  • guests in formal wear, including men in tuxedos and women in gowns visible
Seen happening
  • Man leans over a table toward seated woman. [frame:1]
  • Man stands upright while woman remains seated, looking up at him. [frame:2]
  • Woman rises from her seat and turns toward the man, holding a fan. [frame:3]
Also said
“I know what a bore it is for an ambassador.” 38:53 · “- Do you, Dan?” 39:01
Seen
chandelier, candelabra, formal table with ornate railing, fan, tuxedos and formal gowns
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, conversational, slightly tense; themes: social obligation, romantic tension, class and diplomacy; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal costume design

A man in formal wear speaks with a seated woman at a ball; other guests are visible in the background. The man leans in and then stands as the woman rises, suggesting a shift in their interaction.

“Amen.” 38:45 · “Where have you been all evening?” 38:46 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 38:48 (passage 38:43–39:08); US record: No renewal found

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