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Heartbeat · Beat 159 · permalink

Private office

39:39–40:12 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:4339:43Frame at 39:5139:51Frame at 40:0040:00Frame at 40:0840:08

Play from 39:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 335–338. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s to 40s, slim build, wearing formal black tuxedo with white bow tie and shirt visible, audible
  • Mademoiselle (named at t:39:43): woman, 20s to 30s, blonde, wearing elaborate off-the-shoulder gown with floral embellishments and a large floral hairpiece visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man speaks to the woman, who listens with a concerned expression. [frame:1]
  • The woman reacts with visible surprise and distress to what the man is saying. [frame:2]
  • The man continues speaking while the woman looks down, appearing upset. [frame:3]
  • The woman looks up at the man with a pleading expression as he gestures with his hand. [frame:4]
Also said
“Only that your presence here is no longer desirable.” 39:48 · “And can't I go back for just a moment? No, that is impossible. But I'd like to... I'll tell Monsieur de Roche that my niece wasn't feeling well, and that she has asked me to say goodnight for her.” 40:00
Seen
formal gown with floral embellishments [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:1], floral hairpiece [frame:1], roped-off area with stanchions [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: social hierarchy, exclusion, formal etiquette; style notes: medium two-shot framing, high-contrast studio lighting, formal costume design

A man in formal wear speaks to a woman in an elaborate gown in an interior setting; she reacts with surprise and distress as he informs her she must leave. The dialogue indicates a formal, possibly aristocratic setting, and the woman is told she cannot return, though a message will be sent on her behalf.

“And now, Mademoiselle?” 39:43 · “You mean you're kicking me out?” 39:45 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 39:43 (passage 39:39–40:12); US record: No renewal found

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