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My Dear Secretary · Beat 21 · permalink

Restaurant

45:07–45:30 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; 3 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 45:1845:18

Play from 45:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 15 · shots 25–25. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, seated at table visible
  • woman in evening dress, seated at table visible
  • man in tuxedo, approaching table visible
Also said
“They're going to be married.” 45:14 · “Where are you going? I'm going to talk to her. Go on, please. A boiled chicken.” 45:20
Seen
tuxedos [frame:1], evening dress [frame:1], dining table with plates and glasses [frame:1], crowd of diners [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social interaction, marriage announcement, dining scene; style notes: medium shot, formal attire, studio lighting, crowded background

A man and a woman sit at a table in a crowded dining room while another man approaches. The transcript reveals a conversation about an impending marriage and a request for a drink.

“Ron, will you stop looking at everything at one big long lap?” 45:07 · “Oh, I've got a lot for you, lover boy. What?” 45:12 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 45:18 (passage 45:07–45:30); US record: No renewal found

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