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My Dear Secretary · Beat 40 · permalink

Living room

1:28:48–1:29:02 Released 1949; registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:28:551:28:55

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 52–52. 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
  • Mr. Waterbury (named at t:88:53): man in a suit, standing, holding a cane visible, audible
  • Mary (named at t:88:55): woman, not visible in frame audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a room holding a cane. [frame:1]
Also said
“You want a drink?” 89:01
Seen
suit [frame:1], cane [frame:1], chair [frame:1], sofa [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite, conversational; themes: social interaction, formal address, domestic setting; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, minimal set design

A man in a suit stands in a room with a chair and a sofa while a woman speaks to him; he responds and offers her a drink. The setting appears to be an interior room with minimal furnishings.

“Oh, Mr. Waterbury.” 88:53 · “Hello, Mary.” 88:55 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 1:28:55 (passage 1:28:48–1:29:02); US record: No renewal found

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