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Heartbeat · Beat 252 · permalink

Private office

1:13:31–1:13:55 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 1:13:351:13:35Frame at 1:13:431:13:43Frame at 1:13:501:13:50Frame at 1:13:541:13:54

Play from 1:13:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 568–571. 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
  • man in dark suit, standing, gesturing, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark jacket and light shirt, seated, mid-adult, expressive face visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands and gestures toward a seated man. [frame:1]
  • The standing man continues gesturing while speaking to the seated man. [frame:2]
  • The standing man turns and walks toward a bookshelf while the seated man watches. [frame:3]
  • The seated man looks upward with an expressive face. [frame:4]
Also said
“- Your family? - Oh, we'll go to the colonies. Anybody who plays bridge has accepted.” 73:45 · “And what will you live on?” 73:52
Seen
bookshelf [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], window with panes [frame:1], side table with glassware [frame:1], candelabra [frame:3], round wall mirror [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: marriage, social class, financial dependence; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing with bookshelves and furniture anchoring the scene

Two men are in a room with bookshelves; one stands and gestures while speaking, the other sits and reacts. The standing man walks away from the seated man, who then looks upward with an expressive face.

“Do you mean to say that charm and grace and femininity aren't important? Yes, they are.” 73:37 · “What do you know about her?” 73:42 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 1:13:35 (passage 1:13:31–1:13:55); US record: No renewal found

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