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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 43 · shots 102–104. 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
- Wong (named at t:12:51): man in dark suit and fedora, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
- man in dark suit, bald, older, wearing vest and tie visible, audible
- woman in dark dress, dark hair, medium build visible
- man in light-colored suit, standing behind others visible
- man in dark suit and hat, partially visible visible
- man in dark suit, older, with white hair visible
- Also said
- “She had a cup of coffee and a piece of apple pie.” 13:24 · “I was airplane pilot on the expedition. And I was the cameraman.” 13:40
- Seen
- armchair, side table with coffee cup, bookshelf, door
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: investigation, cultural identity, professional roles; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal composition
A group of men and one woman stand in a formal room while a man named James Lee Wong questions them about Dr. Benton's lunch and staff roles. The dialogue reveals Dr. Benton's secretary, Miss Winland, ate differently and lived at the location.
“My name is Wong, James Lee Wong. How do you fit into this?” 12:51 · “Filet meunier, de pommes de terre julienne, de petits pois et du café.” 13:11 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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