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; 4 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 56:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 389–394. 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 mustache, dark suit, white shirt, seated at desk visible
- man in dark suit, standing, smiling visible
- woman in dark dress with fur stole, standing, looking up visible
- man in light suit, standing, holding paper visible
- Seen happening
- A man sits at a desk and speaks. [frame:1]
- The man at the desk smiles. [frame:2]
- Two men and a woman stand together, smiling and holding hands. [frame:3]
- A man holds up a paper while others look on. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “And bless you, my children. When's it going to happen? Oh, we thought we'd just sneak out sometime.” 56:10 · “We're not telling anyone but you. Listen to this. The Screens ideal romance blossomed into breathtaking reality today when Vicki Lester and Norman Maine, America's dream lovers,” 56:14
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], paper [frame:4], lamp [frame:4], chair [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and celebratory; themes: studio publicity, romantic announcement, private celebration; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, staged composition
A man in a suit sits at a desk while two other people stand beside a woman; later, a man holds a paper as others look on. The transcript reveals a conversation about a studio decision and a secret wedding announcement involving 'Vicki Lester and Norman Maine'.
“What's the matter?” 56:03 · “Trying to decide whether it's good for the studio.” 56:05 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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