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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 25:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 167–171. 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
- man in tuxedo, mustache, seated at desk visible
- man in dark suit and hat, holding phone to ear visible
- woman in dark hat and dress, seated at desk visible
- man in tuxedo, standing in background visible
- man with white hair, seated at desk visible
- Lindy (named at t:25:31): unspecified speaker audible
- Mr. Norman Maine (named at t:25:33): unspecified speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a tuxedo is seated at a desk, holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
- A woman in a dark hat is seated at a desk, holding a telephone receiver to her ear, with other people in the background. [frame:2]
- A man in a tuxedo is seated at a desk, holding a telephone receiver to his ear, while another man in a dark suit and hat stands behind him. [frame:3]
- A man in a dark suit and hat is holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:4]
- Mentioned
- It is mentioned that Mr. Norman Maine was apprehended driving an ambulance down Wilshire Boulevard. [t:25:37]
- It is mentioned that the ambulance had a siren going full blast. [t:25:41]
- It is mentioned that Mr. Norman Maine explained he was a tree surgeon on a maternity case. [t:25:44]
- Also said
- “was apprehended driving an ambulance down Wilshire Boulevard.” 25:37 · “He explained he was a tree surgeon on a maternity case.” 25:44
- Seen
- telephone receiver, desk, window with grid pattern, hat, lamp, telephone receiver, telephone receiver, hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: media coverage, celebrity scandal, private conversation; style notes: static medium shots, dim studio lighting, formal attire, period decor
A man in a tuxedo is on the phone in a dimly lit office; another man in a hat is also on the phone. The transcript mentions Mr. Norman Maine being apprehended while driving an ambulance with a siren, claiming to be a tree surgeon on a maternity case.
“Hello, Lindy. What's the good word?” 25:31 · “Mr. Norman Maine, America's Prince Charming.” 25:33 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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