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My Dear Secretary · Beat 17 · permalink

Newsroom

26:55–27:00 Released 1949; registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:5826:58

Play from 26:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 21–21. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light suit, mid-30s, average build, visible in foreground visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, mid-40s, heavier build, visible center visible
  • man holding camera, visible in background visible
  • multiple men in suits and hats, indistinct, filling background visible
Seen
camera [frame:1], suits [frame:1], hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and pressurized; themes: media frenzy, public attention; style notes: tight framing on central figures, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, crowded composition

A crowded indoor scene with many men in suits, some holding cameras, surrounding a central figure. 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 26:58 (passage 26:55–27:00); US record: No renewal found

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