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Heartbeat · Beat 239 · permalink

Private office

1:07:29–1:07:40 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 1:07:321:07:32Frame at 1:07:371:07:37

Play from 1:07:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 514–515. 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
  • Butler (named at t:67:36): older man, thin, wearing a vest, bow tie, and white shirt; appears to be a servant or staff member visible, audible
  • Monsieur Bartlett (named at t:67:37): taller man, well-dressed in a suit and tie, holding a coat over his arm; appears to be a visitor or guest visible, audible
Also said
“Who are you? I'm the bottler.” 67:34 · “Where's Butler?” 67:36
Seen
wooden door, wall clock, bookshelf, suit coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: class distinction, identity, service roles; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costume

Two men converse in a formal interior; one identifies himself as the bottler and asks for Butler, while the other is addressed as Monsieur Bartlett and Mr. Paderos. No names are visually confirmed beyond what is spoken.

“Hello, John.” 67:29 · “What can I do for you, sir?” 67:31 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 1:07:32 (passage 1:07:29–1:07:40); US record: No renewal found

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