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Heartbeat · Beat 209 · permalink

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58:06–58:26 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:1158:11Frame at 58:1858:18Frame at 58:2358:23

Play from 58:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 447–449. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3 (all dark, no daylight); t:58:16 (spoken: 'At this time of night?')
People
  • Woman with blonde curled hair, wearing dark coat and light collared shirt, visible in close-up visible, audible
  • Father (named at t:58:24): Man in dark clothing, seated in a window, partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks and smiles in a dark setting. [frame:1]
  • The woman's expression changes to concern or surprise. [frame:2]
  • A man is seen sitting in a window while the woman stands below. [frame:3]
Also said
“At this time of night?” 58:16 · “Are you homesick, Father, through foreign schools?” 58:24
Seen
window, foliage, dark coat, collared shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: separation, institutional life, parent-child dynamics; style notes: high-contrast lighting isolates characters against darkness; tight framing on faces emphasizes emotional exchange; night setting enhances drama

A woman speaks from a dark outdoor setting while a man sits in a window above; dialogue references a reform school and homesickness. The scene is set at night, with minimal lighting focused on the characters.

“Where are you going?” 58:12 · “Back to the reform school.” 58:14 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 58:11 (passage 58:06–58:26); US record: No renewal found

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