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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 16:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 34–35. 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, seated, dark hair, mustache, appears distressed visible, audible
- man in dark suit, standing or seated higher, balding, profile view visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit sits with his head bowed, appearing distressed. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit is seen from behind, facing away from the camera. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “This girl's been issued to me as part of my disguise.” 17:10 · “I'll resign. She's nothing to me, I tell you, and I'm nothing to her. Can't you understand?” 17:13
- Seen
- suit [frame:1], suit [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conflicted; themes: espionage, identity, duty vs. personal feeling; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, black-and-white film
Two men in suits are shown in close conversation; one is seated and distressed, the other listens. The dialogue reveals a plot involving a married disguise and a woman assigned as part of it, with one man insisting he is unrelated to her.
“General, does you listen if you're quite finished?” 17:00 · “Brodie was a bachelor, therefore Ashenden has to be a married man. It makes it much safer, that's all.” 17:06 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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