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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 3:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 3 · shots 21–22. 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
- older man, wearing a cap with a badge, bow tie, and sweater, holding a letter visible
- man with mustache, wearing vest and shirt, seated at table visible
- older man with glasses, wearing suit jacket, seated at table visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a cap reads a letter with a surprised expression. [frame:1]
- Two men sit at a table playing checkers. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “According to the terms of the will of your late uncle, Ernest L. Peabody,” 3:24 · “You have inherited complete ownership of the C&O Railroad.” 3:29
- Seen
- letter, cap with badge, checkers board, table
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic surprise; themes: inheritance, unexpected fortune, everyday setting contrasted with grand claim; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and two-shot framing, studio lighting
A man reads a letter announcing he has inherited a railroad; another scene shows two men playing checkers at a table. No names are spoken that identify the individuals in the frames.
“Mr. Abner Peabody, Pine Ridge, Arkansas.” 3:18 · “Dear Mr. Peabody,” 3:22 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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