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My Dear Secretary · Beat 34 · permalink

Living room

1:12:23–1:12:36 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; 2 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 1:12:301:12:30

Play from 1:12:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 44–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing white shirt and dark vest, standing visible
  • woman, mid-adult, light-colored hair, wearing light blouse, seated on couch visible
Also said
“But father...” 72:33 · “I'm older than you are.” 72:34
Seen
couch with floral upholstery [frame:1], dark wooden cabinet or bookshelf [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: family, age difference, revelation; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing

A man and a woman are in a room; the man stands while the woman sits on a couch, and dialogue indicates he is about to be a father. No names are spoken in the transcript, and the setting appears to be an interior space with furniture and decor.

“John's going to be a father, and I'm the first to know” 72:24 · “No, I don't have to listen tomorrow.” 72:27 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 1:12:30 (passage 1:12:23–1:12:36); US record: No renewal found

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