Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 21:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 58–58. 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 suit, mid-30s, average build, holding a box visible
- person in coat, standing behind p1, partially visible visible
- Seen
- large cardboard box, office desk and shelves
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, procedural; themes: office work, investigation, routine; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static camera, black-and-white film
A man in a suit holds a large box while another person stands behind him in what appears to be an office. The transcript includes two spoken lines during this interval.
“All right.” 21:45 · “Oh, what have we got this time?” 21:51 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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