Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 53:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 104–104. 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
- Judy (named at t:54:09): woman wearing a dark dress with white trim and a hat with a feather visible, audible
- Doc (named at t:54:26): man in a dark suit and tie, middle-aged visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A woman and a man stand facing each other in a room with bookshelves. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “I want you to get a prescription pill for me, will you?” 54:42 · “I'm a doctor. I know what's good for me.” 54:51
- Seen
- bookshelf [frame:1], hat with feather [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], dark dress with white trim [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: secrecy, medical authority, coercion; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir
A woman and a man converse in a room with bookshelves; the man asks her to obtain a prescription pill and to show him what is behind a book, which she refuses. The man identifies himself as a doctor and insists on getting the pill.
“Come on, Miss Judy.” 54:09 · “Can you show me what's behind that book, Tia?” 54:35 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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