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; 4 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 45:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 119–119. 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, visible in doorway, standing visible
- Roy (named at t:47:54): unseen speaker, male voice audible
- Captain (named at t:45:25): unseen speaker, male voice audible
- Mrs. Johnson (named at t:45:17): unseen speaker, female voice audible
- Seen happening
- A man stands in a doorway inside a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Cops are watching every move you make.” 48:08 · “Now that's the book you want to read before you go to bed.” 48:54
- Seen
- doorway, chair, books, lamp
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: surveillance, isolation, criminal pursuit; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing, confined interior space
A police captain concludes an interview with Mrs. Johnson, then a voice contacts Roy Vegas, warning him he is under surveillance and instructing him to perform actions while being watched. The voice directs him to pick up books, choose one, turn off lights, and go to the den.
“Thank you very much. You've been a great help. It's positively amazing how you found out what he looked like. Well, we're looking for an amazing criminal, Mrs. Johnson.” 45:17 · “Control yourself. I know you're alone in the house. I'd like you're alone.” 48:00 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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