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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 40:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 68 · shots 158–160. 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:3
- People
- man with mustache, dark hair, wearing suit and tie visible
- man with dark hair, wearing suit and tie visible
- man wearing dark suit and fedora visible
- man wearing light-colored suit and fedora visible
- Seen happening
- Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
- The screen is black. [frame:2]
- Three men stand together in a room, one entering or having just entered. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “The sarcophagus from the Chinese tomb, sir.” 40:47 · “In the library.” 41:02
- Seen
- sarcophagus [t:40:47], door [frame:1, frame:3], fedora [frame:3], suit [frame:1, frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: mystery, cultural exchange, investigation; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera
Two men converse in a room, then a third man enters; dialogue mentions a sarcophagus and a character named Winland. The setting is an interior space with doors and a library mentioned.
“without having to worry about figuring out Chinese problems. What about Winland? Now, Captain, just relax.” 40:21 · “We're going to have a little tea.” 40:27 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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