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 3:16 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 4 · shots 3–4. 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 uniform, visible through window visible
- R (named at t:4:13): unspecified, audible only audible
- Seen happening
- A man looks out a window at night. [frame:1]
- A newspaper clipping reports the death of Captain Edgar Brodie. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Only to find out as soon as I landed in England that I was dead.” 4:21 · “Well, the explanation of that is this.” 4:31
- Seen
- window, newspaper clipping
- On screen
- Worn out by war strain Captain Edgar Brodie succumbed unexpectedly to an attack of influenza while home on leave from the Western
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, mysterious; themes: war, identity, death, misinformation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on window and newspaper, static shots
A man is seen looking out a window at night; a newspaper clipping reports the death of Captain Edgar Brodie. A character named R enters and discusses the news, including a false report of his own death after arriving from France.
“What's that, dear? What's the meaning of all this? Who are you? Stevenson, the soldier of the sad news. Look, yes, sir.” 4:08 · “I don't even know what your name is. You can call me R.” 4:13 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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