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Heartbeat · Beat 97 · permalink

Ballroom

28:11–28:23 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:1328:13Frame at 28:1728:17Frame at 28:2128:21

Play from 28:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 223–225. 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
  • woman with dark upswept hair, wearing dark evening gown with beaded bodice, holding microphone visible
  • man in tuxedo, seen from back and side, facing p1 visible
  • older man with mustache, wearing tuxedo and bow tie visible
  • blonde woman with curled hair, wearing beaded gown with floral shoulder detail visible
Seen happening
  • Woman p1 holds microphone and smiles at man p2. [frame:1]
  • Man p3 and woman p4 stand together; woman p4 gestures with her hand. [frame:2]
  • Woman p1 continues smiling at man p2, holding microphone. [frame:3]
Seen
microphone, tuxedo, evening gown, bow tie, beaded gown
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, social; themes: social gathering, performance, formal attire; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged composition

A woman in evening wear holds a microphone and smiles at a man in a tuxedo; other guests in formal attire are visible in the background. A man with a mustache and a woman in a beaded gown appear in a separate shot, with the woman gesturing as if speaking.

“Oh, here?” 28:16 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 28:13 (passage 28:11–28:23); US record: No renewal found

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