Shop
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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 45:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 97 · shots 437–439. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- sailor in uniform and white cap, young adult, average build visible, audible
- man in dark suit and tie, middle-aged, standing behind a counter visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The jeweler points to a ring and says the sailor has found something. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “I can let you have that for $425.” 45:22 · “Holy smokes, that's a lot of dope for a sailor. Oh, you got a girl too, huh? Yeah. You ought to buy her a ring.” 45:25
- Seen
- ring, jewelry display case, shelves with clocks and trophies, sailor uniform and cap, suit and tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted negotiation; themes: consumerism, romantic gesture, class difference; style notes: medium close-up, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s studio films
A sailor in a shop examines a ring with a jeweler, who offers it for $425. The sailor reacts to the price and is teased about buying it for a girl.
“How much is that one?” 45:06 · “Almost a carrot. Blue-white.” 45:11 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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