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 4:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 13–14. 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 hair styled in a bun, wearing a light-colored dress with puffed sleeves, holding papers visible
- Curtis (named at t:4:57): man, dark hair, wearing a black clerical suit with a white clerical collar visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A woman stands in a room holding papers. [frame:1]
- A man in clerical attire stands facing forward. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Miss Norton, Mr. Powell. How do you do? How do you do, Miss Norton?” 4:58 · “Curtis got tired of converting heathens, so he came up to work on me. Do you think there's any hope for him? Well, there might be, if that well comes in.” 5:01
- Seen
- coatrack [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], desk [frame:1], papers [frame:1], clerical collar [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: introduction of characters, religious vocation, economic stakes; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, period costume
A woman and a man in clerical attire are introduced in an interior setting; dialogue references a well and a character named Curtis. The man is identified as Curtis, the brother of the speaker, and is described as having left missionary work.
“And if the well doesn't come in?” 4:50 · “This is my brother Curtis.” 4:57 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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