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Heartbeat · Beat 289 · permalink

Private office

1:21:11–1:21:33 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:211:21:21Frame at 1:21:321:21:32

Play from 1:21:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 127 · shots 645–646. 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
  • Roland (named at t:81:33): man in dark suit, mid-30s, medium build, seen in profile visible, audible
  • man in light jacket, back to camera, partial view visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit speaks while facing another man. [frame:1]
  • A small dog sits on a piece of furniture. [frame:2]
Also said
“And all I do is to be rude and I'm kind to her. The whole thing is insane.” 81:28 · “But I can't fight against it any longer. You're right, Roland.” 81:33
Seen
small dog, furniture (sofa or chair), window with panes, dark suit, light jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: unresolved desire, social constraint, internal conflict; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two men are in a room; one speaks about being unable to resist his feelings for a woman, mentioning Geneva and addressing someone named Roland. A small dog is visible on a piece of furniture.

“Because he's on my mind constantly.” 81:16 · “I have a terrible desire to take her in my arms.” 81:25 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 1:21:21 (passage 1:21:11–1:21:33); US record: No renewal found

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