Living room
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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 2:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 4 · shots 15–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- young woman, dark hair, wearing a brown sweater with a red patterned collar visible, audible
- older man, balding, wearing a suit, seated visible
- older man, white hair, standing, wearing a dark jacket visible
- man, seated, wearing a dark jacket visible
- Seen happening
- The young woman walks away from the group and exits the room. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “She's just a silly little girl whose head has been turned by the movies.” 3:21 · “And the sooner she forgets the whole thing, the better off she'll be. Why will I be better off? What's wrong with wanting to get out and make something of myself? What do you do that's so much better? Just because you're satisfied to sit here all your life, you think you can laugh at me. Well, someday you won't laugh at me. I'm going out and have a real life. I'm gonna be somebody.” 3:25
- Seen
- armchair, desk, staircase, book
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: ambition, family conflict, gender roles; style notes: medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes
A young woman argues with family members about her ambition to become an actress, then leaves the room. The setting is a dimly lit interior with furniture and a staircase visible.
“I'd be an actress. I would, I tell you, I've always known I could.” 2:58 · “Guys, wouldn't it be wonderful to have a movie star in the family? - Oh, Miss Blodgett, may I have your autograph? - You may not know it, Alex, but you're practically on your way to bed. Oh, Miss Blodgett, you're my favorite actress. Won't you tell me the secret of your success? Oh, let me alone.” 3:03 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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