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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 40:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 197–199. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Joan (named at t:41:19): woman, dark hair in a bob, wearing a dark dress with a large white bow at the neck visible, audible
- Aunt Kate (named at t:40:43): woman, dark hair in a bob, wearing a dark suit with a white collar and a flower pin on the lapel visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Joan and Aunt Kate stand facing each other in a room, engaged in a tense conversation. [frame:1]
- Joan turns slightly while speaking, her expression serious, as Aunt Kate listens. [frame:2]
- Joan and Aunt Kate stand apart, still facing each other, as the argument continues. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Wanna know who she is? I'll tell you who the girl is, Harry.” 41:15 · “Marry the man you love.” 41:22
- Seen
- flower arrangement [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], window with panes [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: female rivalry, romantic betrayal, social reputation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of early 1930s studio productions
Two women stand in a room and argue about a man named Jim, with one defending him and the other accusing him of deceit. The argument ends with one woman telling the other to marry the man she loves and then saying goodbye.
“Just a moment, Aunt Kate.” 40:43 · “I have to know that he promised to marry this particular girl.” 40:53 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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