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; 3 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 11:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 5 · shots 21–22. 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
- Ashenden (named at t:11:18): man in dark pinstripe suit, white shirt, dark tie, fedora hat, medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
- Robert Marvin (named at t:11:39): man with dark hair, wearing light-colored suit and tie, medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
- Lockett (named at t:11:39): woman with blonde hair, wearing light-colored dress, seen from side and back visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a fedora and pinstripe suit stands alone, looking at the camera. [frame:1]
- Three people stand together: a woman, a man in a light suit, and the man in the dark suit. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Sounds well the way you say it, but it's really Robert Marvin. Oh, please to meet you Mr. Lockett.” 11:39 · “time now for the triangle to retire from the family circle.” 11:47
- Seen
- fedora hat [frame:1], pinstripe suit [frame:1], light-colored suit [frame:2], light-colored dress [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ironic; themes: romantic entanglement, social deception, identity and misdirection; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static camera
A man in a fedora and pinstripe suit is shown alone, then a scene with three people: a woman, a man in a light suit, and the man in the dark suit. The dialogue reveals names Ashenden, Robert Marvin, and Lockett, and references a romantic triangle.
“Are you Mr. Ashenden? Guilty.” 11:18 · “Darling, you're here at last. Angel, how well you're looking.” 11:20 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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