Living room
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 34:34 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 176–177. 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, frame:2
- People
- person in full gorilla costume, seated visible
- Abner (named at t:34:36): man in suit and fedora, standing, gesturing visible, audible
- man in suit, standing, facing p2 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A person in a gorilla costume sits in a chair. [frame:1]
- Two men stand and gesture toward each other while speaking. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “I thought that was you. No, that's you.” 34:55 · “Shoot.” 34:35
- Seen
- gorilla costume [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], sofa [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], bookshelf [frame:2], mirror [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comical tension; themes: partnership dispute, costume humor, domestic setting; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, black-and-white, theatrical framing
A person in a gorilla costume sits in a living room while two men argue about partnership. One man gestures toward the other as they speak, and the gorilla-costumed person remains seated.
“Abner, Abner, Abner. Come here, come here. Sit down over there. Sit down. Did I tell you to sit down over there? Don't talk to him like that. That's my partner. Your partner? He's been my partner for seven years. Abner, tell him whose partner you are.” 34:36 · “Well, I was yours, but I ain't going to be if you don't... Abner, or Ab... whichever one's you.” 34:48 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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