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 52:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 166–167. 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, short hair, medium build visible, audible
- Mrs. Ashton (named at t:52:10): woman with short dark hair, wearing dark dress visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man and a woman embrace in a room. [frame:1]
- A handwritten letter of resignation is visible on a table. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “- Are you finished that letter of resignation? - Yes, it is on the table.” 52:29 · “Here, will you give me another cup of coffee, please?” 52:43
- Seen
- handwritten letter, cup, furniture
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: professional resignation, personal tension, domestic setting as workplace; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up framing, soft lighting with shadows, period costume
A man and a woman embrace in a dimly lit room while a letter of resignation is visible on a table. Dialogue references the letter, coffee, and tea, with one character correcting another about a cup.
“There are times, Mrs. Ashton.” 52:10 · “Well, it is almost a pleasure to be alive. Is this one, Mr. Ashenden? I don't quite know yet. Just hold this cup and I'll let you know.” 52:14 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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