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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
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Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 282–282. 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, older, wearing glasses and a dark uniform with a bow tie, standing behind a desk visible, audible
- woman, wearing a light-colored hat and coat, standing at the desk visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A woman asks a man about a trunk that has arrived without a label. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Could you send it to the station and...” 68:25 · “And there's my letter...” 68:30
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], hat [frame:1], uniform [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], glasses [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: bureaucracy, travel logistics, gendered service roles; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio production
A woman in a hat speaks with a man in uniform at a desk; she asks about a trunk without a label and arranges for it to be sent to the station under her name. She also mentions a letter.
“My other trunk.” 68:13 · “But there is no label on it.” 68:17 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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