Theatre
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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 24:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 23 · shots 67–68. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man, dark suit, bow tie, white flower on lapel, holding cigarette visible, audible
- woman, light dress, short hair, visible in profile and front visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Man holds cigarette to mouth while woman looks at him. [frame:1]
- Woman reacts with visible expression to man's appearance. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Boy, I bet you could squeeze it and get a quart of whiskey out of it.” 25:14 · “Hey, Sam. George. Give me some smoke, will you?” 25:18
- Seen
- cigarette, bow tie, white flower boutonniere, light dress
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: darkly comedic; themes: disguise, social interaction, humor through physical appearance; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static camera
A man in formal wear and a woman in a light dress are seated together in a dark setting; the man holds a cigarette while the woman reacts to his appearance. Dialogue includes remarks about teeth, a nose, and a request for a cigarette.
“Are those your own teeth? Of course they're a little silly. Put yours on.” 24:59 · “You mind holding them for me? They're disgusting.” 25:08 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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