House exterior
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 25:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 416–417. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- house exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- Time of day
- night evidence: frame:1
- People
- woman in light coat and patterned skirt, holding a purse visible
- man in light suit and fedora, back to camera visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, facing door visible
- man in suit and fedora, looking upward visible
- Seen happening
- Three people stand outside a house door; one knocks or peers. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit and hat looks upward at night. [frame:2]
- Seen
- door [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1, frame:2], purse [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: isolation, uninvited entry, uncertainty; style notes: low-key lighting, night exterior, medium shots, classic noir framing
A group of people stands outside a house at night; one man looks upward. The transcript indicates they are trying to enter but find no one home.
“There doesn't seem to be anybody home.” 25:21 · “I wish we could get in.” 25:23 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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