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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 26:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 189–191. 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 with mustache, wearing striped shirt and bow tie visible
- woman with curly hair, wearing patterned dress and necklace visible
- man in dark vest and bow tie, looking up visible
- woman with updo, wearing feathered hat and dark dress visible
- Seen happening
- A man and a woman sit at a table playing cards. [frame:1]
- A woman in a feathered hat stands over a seated man. [frame:2]
- The man and woman at the table laugh while holding cards. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “I love it out here in the West” 27:26 · “Because the West is best for lovin'. Seven of Clubs, play.” 27:29
- Seen
- card deck, round table, wallpaper with floral pattern, feathered hat, lamp with white shade, curtains
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: conflict between law and disorder, romantic tension, gambling and social hierarchy; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s Westerns
A man and a woman are seated at a table playing cards in a decorated interior; another woman enters and speaks to a man who is standing. The transcript includes dialogue about a shooting, card games, and local tensions.
“What happened?” 26:43 · “He took a pot shot at me in the alley.” 26:44 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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