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; 2 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 52:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 114 · shots 491–495. 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
- People
- Richard Houston (named at t:53:04): man in naval uniform, short dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- Mary (named at t:52:45): woman with curly hair, wearing dark dress with striped collar visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The woman reacts with concern as the man continues his confession. [frame:2]
- The man turns to face the woman directly while speaking. [frame:3]
- The man stands with hands clasped as the woman looks away, appearing distressed. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “My name isn't Jim Smith.” 53:04 · “It's Richard Houston. I graduated from Annapolis. I got a commission, but that wasn't good enough. No, I had to be a big shot and I had to have money. So I gambled and I lost.” 53:05
- Seen
- {'item': 'naval uniform with stripes and insignia', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'framed picture on wall', 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'wall-mounted sconce', 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'wooden chair back', 'frame': 4}
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: identity, deception, consequence, moral reckoning; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing emotional weight
A man in a naval uniform confesses to a woman that his name is Richard Houston, not Jim Smith, and admits to gambling and borrowing money from fellow officers. The scene takes place indoors, with both characters visible and engaged in a serious conversation.
“He knew where I was. He knew I wasn't sick. He knew I was gambling. He'd get the dough to buy that ring so I'd make an impression on you. I'm not what you'd think I am, Mary.” 52:45 · “everything about me a lot. Don't talk like that. My name is a lie.” 52:55 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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