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Heartbeat · Beat 96 · permalink

Ballroom

27:46–28:11 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; 3 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 27:4727:47Frame at 27:5127:51Frame at 28:0028:00Frame at 28:0728:07

Play from 27:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 219–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ballroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, mustache, wearing tuxedo with bow tie visible
  • woman, blonde, wearing formal gown with floral shoulder details and flower in hair visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, partially visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a gown turns toward the camera while a man in a tuxedo stands beside her. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman stand side by side, looking forward. [frame:2]
  • The man turns his head to speak to the woman. [frame:3]
  • The woman looks away while the man looks forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“I want you to go.” 28:03 · “That man over there.” 28:07
Seen
formal gown with floral shoulder details, tuxedo with bow tie, flower in woman's hair, balustrade and chandeliers in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social expectation, romantic tension, public performance; style notes: studio-lit ballroom scene, medium shots, formal attire, black-and-white film grain

A man in a tuxedo and a woman in a formal gown stand together in a crowded ballroom; the woman asks how she looks and the man directs her to dance with another man. The transcript includes dialogue about dreams and being sent to dance with 'that man over there' with Lydian Black.

“How do I look?” 27:49 · “I feel charming, too.” 27:52 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 27:47 (passage 27:46–28:11); US record: No renewal found

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