Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 0:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–2. 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:2
- People
- Mamie (named at t:1:13): man, dark suit, fedora hat, medium build visible, audible
- woman, dark coat, cloche hat, fur collar, visible in background visible
- man, dark suit, fedora hat, entering through door visible
- woman, light coat, fur stole, standing near door visible
- Seen happening
- A man opens a door marked 804 and enters a room. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Mr. Powell said so.” 1:18 · “Oh, you wouldn't take a chance. Well, what do you think you took when you married that traveling salesman?” 1:23
- Seen
- door with number 804, fedora hats, fur collars and stoles
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: financial speculation, marital risk, social class; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costumes, formal framing
A man in a dark suit and hat speaks to a woman named Mamie about buying oil stock, claiming he will be rich and citing Mr. Powell. He questions her risk tolerance, referencing her marriage to a traveling salesman. A second man in a hat enters a room through a door marked 804.
“Hello, Mamie. Get a load of this. I just bought some of our oil stuff.” 1:13 · “I'm going to be rich.” 1:17 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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