Jail
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 58:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 410–411. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man behind bars, dark clothing visible
- Esther Blodgett (named at t:58:29): woman with styled hair, wearing a dark coat with fur trim visible
- Alfred Hinkle (named at t:58:18): unseen, speaking voice audible
- Seen happening
- A man is seen behind jail bars. [frame:1]
- A woman in a fur-trimmed coat is shown in close-up. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Do you, Esther Blodgett, take this man as your lawful wedded husband? Will you obey, serve, love, honor, and keep him in sickness and health?” 58:29 · “I will.” 58:37
- Seen
- jail bars, fur-trimmed coat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and tense; themes: marriage, confinement, duty; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-up framing on the woman, medium shot of the jail cell
A wedding ceremony is in progress, with vows being exchanged between a man and a woman. A man is seen behind bars in a jail cell, and a woman in a fur-trimmed coat is shown in close-up.
“And now if any man can show just cause why these two may not be lawfully joined together...” 58:09 · “Alfred Hinkle. Take this woman as your lawful wedded wife.” 58:18 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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