Living room
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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 58:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 194–196. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
- People
- man in dark suit with white flower, smiling, holding small object visible
- woman with curly hair, seated, holding object visible
- man in light suit, serious expression, holding small object visible
- man in dark suit, smiling, holding object visible
- woman in bed, holding tray, raising glass visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a dark suit holds a small object while speaking to others. [frame:1]
- Two men examine a small object together. [frame:2]
- A woman lies in bed holding a tray and raises a glass. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Yesterday, a message came through.” 59:08 · “And I'm quite sure he will tell for a small money amount. Five thousand francs!” 59:27
- Seen
- small object held by man, tray with glass, curtains, lamp, clock on wall
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: espionage, secret messages, bribery; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static camera
A man in a suit holds a small object while speaking to others in a room; another scene shows a woman in bed holding a tray with a raised glass. The transcript includes dialogue about a secret message, a chocolate factory, and a payment of five thousand francs.
“Chocolate factory is not only factory, but it is also, and now you will see,” 58:40 · “It's in the clearinghouse for information.” 58:55 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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