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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 6:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 6 · shots 18–20. 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, frame:2, frame:3
- People
- Miss Curtis (named at t:6:29): woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored robe or dress, seated with legs up, holding papers visible, audible
- Buster Collins (named at t:6:34): man, mid-20s to 40s, wearing a light suit and bow tie, seated at a desk, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
- Mrs. Hoffenstein (named at t:6:31): woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored robe or dress, standing, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A woman reclines while holding papers and speaking. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit sits at a desk and speaks on the telephone. [frame:2]
- A woman stands and speaks into a telephone receiver. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “That Buster Collins on the phone.” 6:34 · “Hello, Buster. Hello, Jerry.” 6:48
- Seen
- telephone, desk, papers, curtains, drafting table
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: businesslike and slightly hurried; themes: professional communication, fashion industry, telephone etiquette; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, formal attire
A woman gives instructions about gown designs and a phone call, then speaks with someone named Buster. A man in a suit is seen on the phone at a desk. The setting appears to be an office or studio with drafting equipment and curtains.
“Take these designs to the shop.” 6:22 · “Mrs. Hoffenstein's gown must be ready this evening.” 6:31 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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