Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 4:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 5–5. 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 a military uniform with cap, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
- Ashenden (named at t:5:11): man in dark suit, visible in frame:1, looking down visible, audible
- man in dark suit, partially visible in frame:1, standing beside p1 visible, audible
- Also said
- “We call him the hairless Mexican. Oh, why? Cheaply because he's got a lot of curly hair and isn't a Mexican.” 6:23 · “General Pompilio Motosuma, de la belleza del conde y de la en vous, very please.” 7:17
- Seen
- military uniform [frame:1], cap [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: espionage, international intrigue, identity and deception; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, formal attire, period costume
A man in a military uniform speaks with two other men in a dimly lit interior; one of the men is identified as Ashenden. The conversation involves a mission to Switzerland to locate a German agent, with passports and instructions provided.
“You have the reputation of being a shoot observer of life, Ashington.” 5:11 · “Ashenden is going to Switzerland to locate a certain German agent who is leaving for Arabia very shortly via Constantinople.” 5:23 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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