Living room
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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 16:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 145–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:4
- People
- Mary (named at t:17:01): woman, dark hair, wearing a dress with a light collar, visible in frames 1-4 visible, audible
- man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit or uniform, visible in frames 1-4 visible, audible
- Tennessee Smith (named at t:17:19): man, dark hair, wearing a dark uniform, visible in frames 2-4 visible, audible
- man, dark hair, wearing a dark uniform, visible in frames 2-4 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The man presents Mary with a birthday gift. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “This is Tennessee Smith Jim. This is that night. He's in my disposal” 17:19 · “And he gave his fishing boats to the Navy to be converted into minesweepers.” 17:24
- Seen
- ship's wheel [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:2], furniture (chairs, table) [frame:2, frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: birthday celebration, introductions, wartime contribution; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, period costumes
A man greets Mary, presents her with a birthday gift, and introduces two other men, one of whom is identified as Tennessee Smith. The group is in a room with furniture and a ship's wheel on the wall, and they discuss converting fishing boats to minesweepers before leaving to do something.
“Hello Mary. I'm late had a lot of important things talk over the end. I'm” 17:01 · “Hope you like the present, Mary.” 17:11 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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