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My Dear Secretary · Beat 18 · permalink

Casino

27:00–30:28 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 28:4428:44

Play from 27:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 22–22. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
casino (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Waterbury (named at t:27:57): man in suit, seated at craps table, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • Steve (named at t:27:57): man in light-colored suit, seated at craps table, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man standing behind craps table, possibly dealer or pit boss, wearing dark suit visible
  • man seated at table, partially visible, wearing dark suit visible
Also said
“Leaving? I'm stuck 3,000.” 29:01 · “That's it, Mr. Waterbury.” 29:59
Seen
craps table [frame:1], dice [frame:1], chips [frame:1], suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and frustrated; themes: gambling, financial loss, conflict between employer and employee; style notes: medium shot focused on craps table, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, characters seated in a circle creating a claustrophobic feel

A man named Mr. Waterbury and another man, Steve, are at a craps table in a casino. Waterbury has lost money and is trying to convince Steve to accompany him to Las Vegas to win it back, but Steve refuses and eventually leaves after an argument.

“So far, this job has cost me $83.” 27:21 · “I can't go to Las Vegas with you.” 27:57 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 28:44 (passage 27:00–30:28); US record: No renewal found

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