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Nosferatu_most_complete_version_93_mins. · Beat 175 · permalink

Private office

26:35–26:51 Released 1922

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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.

Frame at 26:3726:37Frame at 26:4226:42Frame at 26:4826:48

Play from 26:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 384–386. 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
  • tall, thin, wearing a dark long coat and a wide-brimmed hat, pale face visible
  • younger, wearing a light-colored waistcoat and trousers, dark boots, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat leans toward a seated man. [frame:1]
  • The seated man looks up with a startled expression as the standing man leans closer. [frame:2]
  • The standing man turns his back to the camera while the seated man remains in his chair. [frame:3]
Seen
dark coat [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], light-colored waistcoat [frame:2], wooden chair [frame:3], stone fireplace [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: confrontation, power imbalance, gothic horror; style notes: static camera, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

Two men are in a dimly lit interior space; one stands facing the other who is seated. The standing man leans forward toward the seated man, who reacts with a startled expression. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

The record

Published 1922, so any US term has expired; no US registration under this title appears in the catalog. The status is a calculation from the date, not a finding about a record. 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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Frame from Nosferatu_most_complete_version_93_mins. (1922) at 26:37 (passage 26:35–26:51)

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