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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 8:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 45–46. 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 in dark suit, standing at front of room, facing group visible
- man in dark suit, adjusting hat, facing two others visible
- man with light hair, smiling, wearing suit and patterned tie visible
- man in dark suit and hat, seen from side/back visible
- group of men in dark suits, seated, backs to camera visible
- Seen happening
- A man stands at the front of a room addressing a seated group. [frame:1]
- A man adjusts his hat while speaking to two other men. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “And you were late.” 8:50 · “That I was. I am not the spiritual. I was lit.” 8:51
- Seen
- wall clocks, hats on wall, desk with telephone, framed picture, window with blinds, hat being adjusted
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and directive; themes: authority, assignment of duties, lateness as a point of discussion; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films
A man addresses a group in a room with clocks and hats on the wall; another man adjusts his hat while speaking to two others. The transcript includes dialogue assigning tasks and commenting on lateness.
“All right, boys.” 8:38 · “Now, Colin, Hawks and Barnes take the stockyard to tell you, huh?” 8:41 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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