Film set
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 41:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 70 · shots 271–276. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- film_set (other, interior) evidence: frame:4
- People
- Esther Blodgett (named at t:41:59): woman with red hair, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light-colored dress visible
- man with dark hair, wearing a black top hat and suit visible
- man in gray shirt and dark hat, holding a clapperboard visible
- Seen happening
- The woman is shown in close-up, smiling slightly. [frame:1]
- The man in the top hat is shown smiling. [frame:3]
- A crew member holds a clapperboard toward the actors. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I'm ready.” 42:03 · “This is a take. Roll 'em.” 42:05
- Seen
- wide-brimmed hat, top hat, clapperboard
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: film production, nervous debut, celebrity naming; style notes: studio lighting, close-ups on faces, medium shot showing crew interaction
A woman in a wide-brimmed hat and a man in a top hat are shown in close-up and medium shots, with a crew member holding a clapperboard. The transcript includes dialogue about fear and readiness for a film take, naming Esther Blodgett as the subject.
“But I'm so scared. You better not try it today. Oh, come on. Now, don't be foolish. They all had to go through this.” 41:49 · “Esther Blodgett.” 41:59 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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