Restaurant
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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 47:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 27–28. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Steve (named at t:47:03): man in formal wear, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- woman with blonde hair in updo, wearing light dress visible, audible
- Harris (named at t:47:54): man in dark suit, seen from back or side visible
- Ronnie Hayes (named at t:48:05): man in formal wear, partially visible visible
- Mr. Howes (named at t:48:39): man in dark suit, seen from back visible
- Seen happening
- A man and woman are dancing closely in a crowded room. [frame:1]
- The couple continues dancing while other guests are visible around them. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Oh, Mr. Harris, this is Ronnie Hayes.” 48:05 · “If you don't mind, I think I'll be running along. Mr. Howes, would you mind taking me with you?” 48:39
- Seen
- formal wear [frame:1], dinner table with chicken [frame:2], glass of broiled chicken [t:47:36]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and tense; themes: romantic confession, social interaction, formal dining setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, formal attire, crowded social setting
A man and a woman are dancing closely in a crowded room while dialogue reveals a romantic confession and proposal. Other guests, including a man named Harris, are present and interact briefly.
“Listen to me, Steve. I love you. Everything I dictated at the beach house I met, but it was too much of a coward to say it out. I love you, Steve. Marry me. Take a chance.” 47:18 · “I love you. Marry again.” 47:32 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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