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Heartbeat · Beat 177 · permalink

Vehicle interior

45:39–46:59 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:5245:52Frame at 46:0846:08Frame at 46:1646:16Frame at 46:4146:41

Play from 45:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 371–374. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in formal wear (tuxedo, bow tie) visible, audible
  • woman with blonde curly hair, flower in hair, formal dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman whistles. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, a dog. What did you think?” 46:01 · “Au revoir.” 46:58
Seen
steering wheel, tuxedo, bow tie, flower in hair, formal dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, playful; themes: romantic tension, misunderstanding, instruction; style notes: close two-shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, black-and-white film

A man and a woman are seated in a vehicle at night, conversing. The woman mentions living alone with a dog named Flora and demonstrates how to whistle, which the man attempts unsuccessfully.

“You live there alone?” 45:45 · “Yes, all alone. That is, with Flora.” 45:47 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 45:52 (passage 45:39–46:59); US record: No renewal found

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