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My Dear Secretary · Beat 1 · permalink

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0:00–3:45 Released 1949; registered 1948

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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:521:52

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and bow tie, mid-30s, average build visible
  • woman in coat, holding gloves, mid-20s, slim visible
  • man in suit and tie, mid-30s, average build visible
  • Owen Waterbury (named at t:1:40): man, audible only, self-identifies as Owen Waterbury audible
  • Mr. Walterbury (named at t:2:00): man, audible only, introduces himself as Mr. Walterbury audible
  • Mr. Ronnie Hastings (named at t:2:10): man, audible only, introduced as Mr. Ronnie Hastings audible
  • Miss Taylor (named at t:2:53): woman, audible only, addressed as Miss Taylor audible
  • Mr. Scott (named at t:2:53): man, audible only, addressed as Mr. Scott audible
Seen happening
  • Three people walk down a hallway. [frame:1]
Also said
“I brought a friend, Mr. Ronnie Hastings.” 2:10 · “Our guest speaker tonight will be none other. Then Owen Waterbury” 3:13
Seen
coat, gloves, bow tie, suit, hallway, light fixture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, conversational; themes: literary culture, social introductions, academic setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio-lit interior, classic 1940s framing

Three people walk down a hallway; a lecture is announced for Owen Waterbury. A man and woman interact in a crowded room, with seating disputes and introductions occurring.

“Aren't you Owen Waterbury? Yes, I am. How do you do?” 1:40 · “I'm mr. Walterbury good evening. How do you do it? You're right on time. We almost didn't get here I was doing his laundry and we had to wait for it to dry and” 2:00 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 My Dear Secretary (1949) at 1:52 (passage 0:00–3:45); US record: No renewal found

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