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Heartbeat · Beat 98 · permalink

Ballroom

28:23–28:43 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:2728:27Frame at 28:3228:32Frame at 28:3928:39

Play from 28:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 226–228. 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
  • young woman, blonde, wearing formal gown with floral decorations and updo hairstyle visible
  • man seen from back, wearing dark suit visible
  • woman with dark hair in updo, wearing dark dress and pearl bracelet visible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman stand facing each other in a ballroom. [frame:1]
  • A couple dances in the background. [frame:2]
  • Man closes eyes and smiles while standing next to woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“Why do I dance with him?” 28:35 · “Do I ask him right away?” 28:41
Seen
tuxedo, formal gown with floral decorations, pearl bracelet, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly anxious; themes: social etiquette, romantic hesitation, formal dance; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged ballroom setting

A man in a tuxedo and a woman in a formal gown stand together in a crowded ballroom; another couple dances nearby. The transcript includes remarks about the woman's beauty and questions about dancing with a man.

“Very nice.” 28:25 · “The lady's beautiful.” 28:27 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 28:27 (passage 28:23–28:43); US record: No renewal found

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