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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 29:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 52 · shots 193–193. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- woman wearing a feathered hat and ruffled costume, mid-adult, slender build visible
- unseen, likely male based on voice audible
- unseen, likely male based on voice audible
- Seen happening
- A woman in costume descends a staircase. [frame:1]
- Seen
- feathered hat and ruffled costume, wooden staircase with banister, wallpapered walls with framed pictures, hanging lamp
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and social; themes: gambling, social interaction, costume and performance; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting emphasizing costume and interior detail
A woman in a feathered costume descends a staircase in an ornate interior while someone off-screen proposes a game of fan-tan. Another voice immediately accepts the offer.
“Would anybody be interested in playing a little fan-tan?” 29:17 · “Come to think of it, I would.” 29:24 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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