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Jigsaw · Beat 2 · permalink

Hallway

1:08:36–1:11:27 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:10:011:10:01

Play from 1:08:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 8–8. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure, likely male, standing in doorway visible
  • silhouetted figure, possibly female, near doorway visible
  • Frank (named at t:69:29): unseen speaker audible
  • Carolyn (named at t:69:37): unseen speaker audible
  • Howard (named at t:69:54): unseen speaker audible
  • Alois (named at t:69:17): unseen speaker audible
  • Barbara (named at t:69:09): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Silhouetted figures are visible in a hallway. [frame:1]
Also said
“Place looks like the last act of Hamlet.” 69:25 · “Howard! Howard!” 69:54
Seen
silhouetted figures [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], hallway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: betrayal, violence, confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted figures, low-key lighting, static framing

A person speaks about being shot and a woman named Barbara being killed, while another person calls out for Howard. The scene is dimly lit and shows silhouetted figures in a hallway.

“I caught her trying to find the papers.” 68:50 · “She killed Barbara.” 69:09 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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Frame from Jigsaw (1949) at 1:10:01 (passage 1:08:36–1:11:27); US record: No renewal found

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