Bar
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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 37:16 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 38–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress visible, audible
- Steve (named at t:38:40): man in tuxedo, bow tie, white shirt visible, audible
- Mr. Brandon (named at t:39:17): man in suit, authoritative tone audible, mentioned
- Mr. Graham (named at t:39:34): man in suit, polite tone audible
- woman with blonde curly hair, sequined top visible
- Seen happening
- A woman and a man in a tuxedo are seen in a bar, surrounded by other patrons. [frame:1]
- The man in the tuxedo speaks to the woman, holding her hand. [frame:2]
- A close-up shows a hand holding a knife with engraved text. [frame:3]
- A woman in a sequined top stands in a decorated room. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Oh, your door was open. I was looking for some plates for my camera.” 39:20 · “I'd be more careful in choosing my friends if I were you.” 39:44
- Seen
- knife [frame:3], tuxedo [frame:2], sequined top [frame:4], bar tables and chairs [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], door [t:39:20], taxi [t:40:52], trees [t:41:38]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: romantic tension, social class, mystery, gender roles; style notes: black-and-white, close-ups used for emotional emphasis, studio lighting
A woman is confronted in a bar by a man named Steve, then later seen with another man named Mr. Brandon; she eventually leaves in a taxi and is later shown in a glamorous dress. A close-up reveals a hand holding a knife with engraved text.
“Give Stevie a little kiss. Oh, now listen, what are you doing in here? Get back to the bar, you'll lose your job.” 38:40 · “How did you get in here?” 39:19 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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