Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 11:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 97–97. 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
- man in dark suit, light shirt, dark tie, medium build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible
- man in dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, medium build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible
- Captain Street (named at t:12:02): man in dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, medium build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible
- woman with dark hair, dark dress, light collar, visible behind p2 visible
- Seen happening
- Four people stand in a doorway, looking toward the right. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “That was Captain Street of the Homicide Squad. Homicide?” 12:02 · “That means a Dr. Benton?” 12:06
- Seen
- doorway [frame:1], curtained window [frame:1], suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: crime, investigation, suspense; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing
Three men and one woman stand in a doorway, reacting to news of a homicide. The transcript identifies a Captain Street and mentions Dr. Benton in connection with the event.
“What's all the excitement about?” 11:59 · “I don't know, but it must be serious.” 12:01 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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