Private office
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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 43:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 227–227. 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
- Mr. Edwards (named at t:43:31): man seated at desk, wearing suit and tie, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
- man standing, leaning forward, wearing dark suit and tie, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
- man seated beside desk, wearing hat and overcoat, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Three men are in an office discussing a price. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “And cash money too.” 43:29 · “Well, you certainly drive a hard bargain, Mr. Edwards.” 43:31
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: negotiation, business dealings, mid-20th century office culture; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film
Three men are in an office; one seated at a desk speaks while another leans in to negotiate a price, and a third sits beside the desk. The transcript reveals a haggling conversation over a sum of money, with one man identified as Mr. Edwards.
“Seventy-five dollars is my price.” 43:17 · “Sixty-five then, but not a cent left.” 43:26 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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