Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 34:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 59 · shots 142–143. 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, frame:2
- People
- woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, dark suit, light blouse, brooch at collar visible, audible
- man, 30s-40s, wearing dark suit, fedora, tie, medium build visible
- man, 30s-40s, wearing light-colored suit, fedora, medium build visible
- Seen happening
- A woman speaks while standing between two men in an office. [frame:1]
- Three people stand together in an office; the woman is centered, flanked by two men. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Then tied herself up and put herself in the closet.” 35:00 · “Well, Frazier didn't tie her up and put her in the closet and then knock himself out, did you?” 35:08
- Seen
- wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:2], suit [frame:1, frame:2], desk [frame:2], closet [t:34:54], gun [t:34:50]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, interrogative; themes: suspicion, confrontation, mystery; style notes: medium close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, period costume
A woman in a hat speaks while two men stand beside her in an interior setting; dialogue suggests someone was tied up and placed in a closet after being confronted with a gun. The scene involves questioning about Frazier's whereabouts and actions.
“Then what are you doing here?” 34:40 · “As I came in, he turned around with a gun in his hand. Yeah.” 34:48 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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