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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 28:01 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 22 · shots 44–46. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit and hat, visible in doorway visible
- man in dark suit, visible in doorway visible
- man in cap and dark jacket, visible in doorway visible
- man in dark suit, visible in doorway visible
- Seen happening
- Two men stand in a doorway of a room with grave markers on the floor. [frame:1]
- A black cat is seen near a brick wall and dirt ground. [frame:2]
- A man in a cap speaks to another man in a doorway. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “How often have I told you to keep that cat from desecrating my graves?” 28:43 · “Is that guy a real doctor?” 29:00
- Seen
- grave markers [frame:1], cat [frame:2], brick wall [frame:2], doorway [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: eerie and suspenseful; themes: death, mystery, medical authority; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing, confined spaces
Two men stand in a dimly lit room with grave markers on the floor; a cat is seen near a brick wall; a man in a cap speaks to another man in a doorway. Dialogue references a tip, a Mr. Stratton, a cemetery, and a doctor.
“You're not afraid of him now, are you?” 28:03 · “To Chelsea.” 28:10 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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