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Heartbeat · Beat 161 · permalink

Ballroom

40:28–41:07 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; 2 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 40:3240:32Frame at 40:4040:40Frame at 40:5740:57Frame at 41:0441:04

Play from 40:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 341–345. 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, blonde curly hair, wearing a formal off-shoulder ball gown with floral embellishments and a flower in her hair visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a black tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere visible, audible
Also said
“my first ball and I shouldn't stay too late. Forgive me, but your uncle is a prude. I'm only one brother. I'll explain to him.” 40:50 · “You don't think I'd let you go home alone, do you? But I'll be all right. You certainly will be, because I'm going with you.” 41:00
Seen
ball gown with floral sleeves, tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere, staircase and ornate interior architecture, flower in woman's hair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense, with undertones of romantic insistence; themes: social etiquette, romantic obligation, youthful rebellion; style notes: studio-lit, medium shots emphasizing character interaction, formal attire and ornate setting suggest high-society event

A man in formal wear insists on escorting a woman in a ball gown home after her uncle requested she leave early. The woman initially objects but agrees after he insists.

“You're forgetting something else, mademoiselle.” 40:36 · “My uncle, uh, said it was time for me to go home and that, uh, he made my excuses. But it's so early.” 40:42 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 40:32 (passage 40:28–41:07); US record: No renewal found

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