Club
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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 29:49 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 1 · shots 31–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- club (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in tuxedo, dark hair, mustache, holding a menu or card visible
- woman with dark hair, holding a large camera, wearing dark dress visible
- woman with blonde curled hair, wearing earrings and dark dress visible
- man in suit, dark hair, seated at table visible
- woman with dark hair, wearing striped blouse, seated at table visible
- man in suit, speaking to p5 visible
- Captain Brown (named at t:35:10): man, audible only, referred to as Captain audible
- Lucille Compton (named at t:34:44): woman, audible only, referred to as Lucille Compton audible, mentioned
- Seen happening
- A woman holds a camera while seated at a table in a crowded club. [frame:1]
- A man in a tuxedo looks at a card or menu while seated. [frame:2]
- A woman with a camera stands beside a seated blonde woman. [frame:3]
- A man and a woman sit at a table, engaged in conversation. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I'll be seeing you, Lucky. I don't got it.” 30:41 · “Lucille loves Brannon. She accused him of being in Norma's house the night of the murder.” 34:44
- Seen
- camera, tuxedo, menu or card, curtains, table with dishes, striped blouse, earrings, cigars [t:31:15]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and tense; themes: murder mystery, suspicion, romantic tension, film noir; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, period costumes
A man in a tuxedo and a woman with a camera are seen in a crowded club; dialogue reveals suspicion around a murder and a character named Lucky Brandon. A woman named Lucille Compton is mentioned as having accused Brandon of being at a murder scene.
“Brave man eating in your own place. I'm used to it.” 30:12 · “Everyone is until this case is cleared up.” 30:34 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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