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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:00:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 272–273. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, and fedora hat; smiling, medium build visible
- man in suit and fedora hat, standing behind p1, less in focus visible
- Seen happening
- The film ends with a title card reading 'The End'. [frame:2]
- Seen
- fedora hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], Monogram Pictures logo [frame:2]
- On screen
- The End A MONOGRAM PICTURES PRODUCTION
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, concluding; themes: film closure, studio production; style notes: studio-lit, medium close-up, black-and-white, static framing
Two men in suits and hats are visible in a studio setting; one smiles at the camera while the other stands behind. The film ends with a 'The End' title card from Monogram Pictures.
“Well, come on, come on.” 60:47 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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