Hotel lobby
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 32:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 38 · shots 158–162. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in light-colored suit and fedora, standing near desk visible
- Plato (named at t:32:28): person in full gorilla costume, moving through lobby visible
- man in dark suit, standing in background visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit and hat stands near a reception desk as a gorilla-costumed person walks past. [frame:1]
- Close-up of the gorilla-costumed person peeking from behind foliage. [frame:2]
- Gorilla-costumed person moves forward, still partially behind foliage. [frame:3]
- Man in suit and hat talks to someone at the desk while the gorilla-costumed person crouches nearby. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “- He's always clowning. - Clowning. - A great actor. - Yes. He's the only girl in the world that doesn't adopt him. He throws his partner 20 feet in the air. He throws his partner 20 feet in the air.” 32:35
- Seen
- reception desk [frame:1], gorilla costume [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:1], foliage/plant decoration [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic, chaotic; themes: slapstick humor, disguise and identity, hotel lobby as comedic setting; style notes: medium shots with static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white film, exaggerated costume and physical comedy
A man in a suit and hat stands near a reception desk while a person in a gorilla costume moves through a hotel lobby; dialogue references 'Plato' and someone 'clowning'. No named characters are identified from the transcript or frames.
“That Peabody guy. Where did me and Plato find him? Plato? Yeah, that's Plato. Plato.” 32:28 · “Put it down. Put it down.” 32:33 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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.
- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/2_weeks_to_live/b73.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite