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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 13:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
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Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 91–93. 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
- woman, dark suit, light hair, medium build visible, audible
- woman, green dress, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- Danny McGuire (named at t:14:27): man, bald, dark suit, heavy build visible, audible
- woman, dark dress, dark hair, medium build visible
- Seen happening
- A woman in a dark suit speaks to a woman in green in front of a switchboard. [frame:1]
- A man at a desk is interrupted by a woman standing behind him. [frame:2]
- A man in a dark suit looks down at papers on his desk. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Maybe you don't go out in the right way. I think Danny McGuire here, he knows the ropes, don't you Danny? Sure, I've had them around my neck for years.” 14:14 · “Mr. McGuire is a... Big director.” 14:34
- Seen
- switchboard, desk, telephone, papers, sign reading 'RECEPTION DESK'
- On screen
- RECEPTION DESK
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and aspirational; themes: ambition, film industry, introduction of a character; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera
A woman in a dark suit speaks to a woman in green in a switchboard office; a man at a desk is interrupted by a woman standing behind him; a close-up shows a man in a dark suit looking down at papers. A man named Danny McGuire is introduced as a big director.
“I can't keep the girls to the switchboard long. They go crazy.” 13:18 · “Every one of those little lights thought it was going to be a star.” 13:22 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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