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My Dear Secretary · Beat 16 · permalink

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26:51–26:55 Released 1949; registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:5326:53

Play from 26:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 20–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Horses and jockeys race around a turn on a dirt track. [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], jockeys [frame:1], racetrack railing [frame:1], dirt track [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: wide shot, elevated angle, black and white, static camera

A horse race is shown from an elevated angle, with jockeys on horses rounding a turn on a dirt track. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 26:53 (passage 26:51–26:55); US record: No renewal found

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