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Nosferatu_most_complete_version_93_mins. · Beat 198 · permalink

Private office

31:05–31:06 Released 1922

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:0531:05

Play from 31:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 440–440. 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
  • standing man with curly hair, wearing a dark tailcoat, waistcoat, and cravat, 19th-century formal attire visible
  • seated figure wearing a dark hat and coat, face partially obscured, appears to be writing or handling objects on a surface visible
Seen
wooden chair with high back [frame:1], table or desk surface [frame:1], dark hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: power dynamics, formal confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shot, theatrical staging typical of 1920s German Expressionism

A standing man in formal 19th-century attire looks down at a seated figure in a dimly lit room; the seated figure wears a dark hat and coat and appears to be writing or examining something on a surface. 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 31:05 (passage 31:05–31:06)

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