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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 39:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 67 · shots 154–157. 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 and tie, mustache, mid-adult visible, audible
- man in dark suit, heavier build, mid-adult visible
- Win Lin (named at t:39:46): older man in traditional Chinese robe and cap visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit holds a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
- Another man approaches the man on the phone. [frame:2]
- An older man in traditional attire speaks on the phone at a desk. [frame:3]
- The older man continues speaking on the phone, looking concerned. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “The site of the temple is in the hands of China's enemies.” 40:05 · “It is your duty...” 40:08
- Seen
- telephone receiver, wall-mounted lamp, desk with papers, small statue on desk, traditional Chinese robe and cap, wooden door, dark suit, tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: mystery, duty, cultural conflict, secret knowledge; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static camera, period costumes
A man in a suit speaks on the phone while another man approaches him; a second scene shows an older man in traditional attire also on the phone at a desk. The transcript references Dr. Benton's murder, a woman named Win Lin, and a temple's secret tied to China's enemies.
“Not until Dr. Benton's murder is solved.” 39:43 · “A daughter of the moonflower named Win Lin is concerned.” 39:46 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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