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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 36:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 61 · shots 225–228. 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
- Mr. Canning (named at t:36:35): man in dark suit, fedora, medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
- man in dark suit, no hat, medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Two men stand at a desk in an office, one holding a hat. [frame:1]
- The two men face each other, one gesturing with his hand. [frame:2]
- The man in the fedora speaks to the other man. [frame:3]
- The man in the dark suit speaks to the man in the fedora. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I come up to get a passport. I'm going to England.” 36:57 · “I'm going to play around with them Dukes and the Ritzy Dolls. You know, drink tea, chase boxes.” 36:59
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], papers on desk [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: crime, deception, social class, mobster culture; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera
Two men in suits and hats converse in an office; one mentions going to England to play with Dukes and Ritzy Dolls. The dialogue includes references to past dealings, stock manipulation, and a passport request.
“Come on, Mr. Canning.” 36:35 · “Red page, you old palooka!” 36:39 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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