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Heartbeat · Beat 9 · permalink

Private office

2:39–3:01 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; 4 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 2:422:42Frame at 2:472:47Frame at 2:552:55Frame at 2:592:59

Play from 2:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 21–25. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, holding a glass, medium build, adult visible, audible
  • smaller man, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt, adult visible, audible
  • Hector (named at t:2:42): puppet-like figure with large white eyes, black hat, dark coat, visible in multiple frames visible
  • Ollie (named at t:2:51): man in light-colored jacket, dark hair, adult visible
Seen happening
  • A puppet-like figure is visible among other figures in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit holds a glass and speaks to a smaller man. [frame:2]
  • The puppet-like figure and a man in a light jacket are shown in close-up. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit, the puppet-like figure, and the man in the light jacket stand together. [frame:4]
Also said
“All right, Ollie, you try it.” 2:51 · “Me? Yes you of course. Come on hurry. He isn't going to open his coat for you.” 2:54
Seen
glass, puppet-like figure, puppet-like figure, puppet-like figure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, coercion, theatrical performance; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, theatrical framing

A man in a suit holds a glass while speaking to a smaller man; a puppet-like figure appears in multiple shots. Dialogue references 'Hector' and 'Ollie' in a context suggesting a coat pocket is central to the scene.

“We start today with the inside coat pocket, the one that cost poor Hector his freedom.” 2:42 · “All right, come on.” 2:49 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 2:42 (passage 2:39–3:01); US record: No renewal found

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