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Heartbeat · Beat 268 · permalink

Private office

1:18:12–1:18:25 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:161:18:16Frame at 1:18:231:18:23

Play from 1:18:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 115 · shots 606–607. 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, mid-adult, wearing a dark suit and tie, medium build visible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a light coat with dark fur trim, styled hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room with bookshelves. [frame:1]
  • The man turns his head to his right and holds a small object in his hands. [frame:2]
Seen
{'item': 'bookshelves filled with books', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'small dark object held by man', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'desk with inkwell and papers', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'sculpture on shelf', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: confrontation, formal interaction, object as focus; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast studio lighting, classic 1940s film composition

A man in a suit stands in a room with bookshelves while a woman in a fur-trimmed coat looks at something in her hands. The man then turns his head and holds a small object.

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 1:18:16 (passage 1:18:12–1:18:25); US record: No renewal found

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