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Heartbeat · Beat 240 · permalink

Private office

1:07:40–1:08:27 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:441:07:44Frame at 1:08:011:08:01Frame at 1:08:091:08:09Frame at 1:08:231:08:23

Play from 1:07:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 516–521. 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
  • Monsieur Pierre de Roche (named at t:67:42): man, middle-aged, wearing a dark vest and bow tie, holding a hat and coat visible, audible
  • Mr. Pierre Desroches (named at t:68:10): man, young adult, wearing a suit and tie, holding a coat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to a butler. [frame:1]
  • The butler responds to the man in the suit. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit looks down while the butler speaks. [frame:3]
  • The butler holds a hat and coat and speaks. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yes, sir. Oh, I beg your pardon, boss. Welcome home, sir.” 68:12 · “Would you mind getting my bags into that? Yes, sir. Of course.” 68:19
Seen
hat [frame:4], coat [frame:4], suit [frame:1], vest [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and deferential; themes: class hierarchy, return home, service; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a suit identifies himself as Mr. Pierre Desroches to a butler, who then greets him as 'boss' and offers to take his bags. The butler is holding a hat and coat in the final frame.

“You are Monsieur Pierre de Roche's butler? Yes, sir.” 67:42 · “Mr. Pierre Desroches, the boss.” 68:10 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 1:07:44 (passage 1:07:40–1:08:27); US record: No renewal found

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