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; 4 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 56:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 117 · shots 519–522. 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:2
- People
- older man, naval officer uniform with cap, stripes on sleeve visible, audible
- younger man, dark naval uniform, standing visible
- younger man, light naval uniform, seated visible
- Smith (named at t:56:30): man in light naval uniform, seated, speaking visible, audible
- Seen happening
- An officer is seen holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
- Two officers are in an office; one stands while the other sits at a desk. [frame:2]
- The standing officer gestures toward the seated officer. [frame:3]
- The officer who was told he is a prisoner at large is shown seated, looking up. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “What about Smith?” 56:30 · “Report to the chief master at arms. You're a prisoner at large.” 56:34
- Seen
- telephone receiver, naval uniform with cap, map on wall, American flag, desk with papers and equipment, naval uniform with shoulder boards, blinds on window
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: military command, duty under pressure, consequences of failure; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, formal naval attire, static camera
A naval officer gives orders over the phone to search a channel for mines, while another officer reports that a man named Smith is unavailable and is then ordered to report to the chief master at arms as a prisoner at large. The setting is an office with maps and naval equipment.
“Have them search the floor of the channel, starting 1,000 feet beyond the harbor gate.” 56:11 · “There's a transport here that's got to be out in less than three hours.” 56:15 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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