Farmhouse
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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 3 · shots 2–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- farmhouse (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:3
- Time of day
- night evidence: frame:3
- People
- visible in dark interior, wearing coat, entering room visible
- visible in dark interior, wearing coat, entering room visible
- Frank (named at t:1:42): audible, referred to as 'Dad' and 'Frank' audible
- Maddie (named at t:1:36): audible, referred to as 'Aunt Maddie' and 'daughter' audible
- Seen happening
- A long shot shows a snow-covered expanse with a wolf silhouetted in moonlight and a distant farmhouse. [frame:1]
- The scene shows a night view of a snow-covered landscape with a farmhouse and a full moon. [frame:3]
- People enter a dark interior space, one removing a coat. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Well, daughter, how was the moving picture tonight?” 1:44 · “Lovely.” 1:47
- Seen
- wolf, farmhouse, moon, coat
- On screen
- Scene 1 FADE IN: MOONLIGHT. LONG SHOT EXPANSE OF SNOW. In the foreground a wolf silhouetted in the moonlight. In the background the isolated farmhouse of the Blodgetts. As we hear the melancholy howling of the wolf, we
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, domestic, slightly melancholic; themes: homecoming, family, nighttime solitude; style notes: uses long shots for atmosphere, high contrast lighting for night scenes, tight framing for interior dialogue
The beat opens on a night scene showing a snow-covered landscape with a distant farmhouse and a wolf's silhouette, followed by an interior shot of people entering a dark room. Dialogue indicates a family returning home from the movies and greeting each other.
“Well, home from the movies at last. Looks like it, Aunt Maddie.” 1:36 · “Hello, Frank.” 1:42 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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