Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 12:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 24–24. 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
- Elsa Carrington (named at t:12:12): woman, light-colored dress with bow headpiece, holding an object visible, audible
- Richard Ashen (named at t:12:24): man, dark suit, tie, formal attire visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The woman holds out her passport to prove her identity. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Yes, I'll send for me and tell me to come out here to join my husband, Mr. Richard Ashen. Yes.” 12:24 · “Here's my passport.” 12:36
- Seen
- passport, doorway, wall sconce
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: identity verification, espionage, marital deception; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests studio-era production design
A woman introduces herself as Elsa Carrington to a man who questions her identity and her claim to be his wife. She presents her passport as proof while standing in a doorway.
“I wasn't expecting you quite so soon. So I gathered. Tell us. My good girl, there's no need for you to play a part now. Kindly tell me who you are, what your name is,” 12:04 · “And why are you passing yourself off as my wife? My name is Elsa Carrington.” 12:12 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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