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My Dear Secretary · Beat 9 · permalink

Private office

11:34–11:45 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). 4 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 11:3911:39

Play from 11:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 3 · shots 11–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Owen (named at t:11:34): man, mid-30s, wearing a white shirt and patterned tie, mustache, seated visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a suit and hat, seated visible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are seated together in an office setting. [frame:1]
Also said
“And he lives in the eighth grade.” 11:39 · “Then I went to high school.” 11:41
Seen
hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], patterned tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, conversational; themes: school memories, personal anecdotes, social interaction; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, black-and-white film

A man and a woman are seated indoors; the man speaks about his school history with someone named Owen. The woman listens with a neutral expression.

“You know, Owen and I went to school together.” 11:34 · “I was in kindergarten” 11:38 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 11:39 (passage 11:34–11:45); US record: No renewal found

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