Private office
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 31:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 156–157. 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
- man with beard, wearing dark coat and hat, holding a small object visible, audible
- man in light suit, standing left visible
- man in dark suit, standing right visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a hat holds a small object and speaks. [frame:1]
- Three men stand in a room; the man in the hat gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “It is in you. It is in you. I ain't got no such thing in me. Well, what is it you won't have her to do? This dog I know will change me into my animal self.” 31:54 · “Guinea pig, you ain't gonna make no kind of animal out of me.” 32:15
- Seen
- small object held by p1, bookshelf, table with glassware and vase, door
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and surreal; themes: identity, transformation, confinement; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costumes
A man in a dark coat and hat holds a small object while speaking to two other men in a room with bookshelves and a table. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about a key, a prison door, and being changed into an animal self.
“You see this?” 31:44 · “This is the key that opens my prison door.” 31:46 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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