Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:12:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 123 · shots 498–499. 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
- Norman (named at t:72:18): man wearing glasses and a dark suit, seated at a desk with a green lamp visible, audible
- Artie (named at t:72:27): man in a light suit and tie, holding a telephone receiver to his ear visible, audible
- Also said
- “Is that on the level? Oh, please, Artie. I'm not news anymore. Forget it.” 72:30
- Seen
- telephone [frame:1], desk lamp [frame:1], telephone receiver [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: communication, professional relationships, media and fame; style notes: two-shot sequence with medium close-ups, studio lighting focused on faces, dark background to emphasize dialogue
Two men are shown in separate shots talking on telephones in what appears to be an office setting. One man is identified by name as Norman during the conversation, and the other is addressed as Artie.
“Oh, is that you, Norman?” 72:18 · “Say I hear you through with Oliver Niles.” 72:27 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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