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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 110–114. 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
- older man in dark uniform, seated at desk, profile view visible, audible
- Frickson (named at t:13:10): man in light uniform, standing, facing p1, later turns to camera visible, audible
- Gilman (named at t:13:08): man in dark suit and tie, enters doorway, later shown in close-up visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit enters the office and is addressed as Gilman. [frame:2]
- The man in the suit is shown in close-up, looking serious. [frame:3]
- The man in uniform is shown in close-up, looking directly at camera. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Well, I was wondering when you'd appear on deck, Frickson. Yes, sir.” 13:10 · “We got a nice new mine sweeper for me. I think it can be arranged.” 13:14
- Seen
- desk, telephone, blinds on window, framed portrait, uniforms
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: military hierarchy, wartime recruitment, duty and assignment; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, framed by window blinds
Two men in uniform speak in an office while a third man enters; one is addressed as Frickson and is offered a mine sweeper. The setting is an interior office with blinds and framed pictures.
“We're hoping for some old timers for the mine disposal unit, sir.” 12:56 · “Pardon me, Gilman.” 13:08 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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