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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 41:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 162–163. 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
- woman, dark hair, seated at desk, wearing light-colored blouse visible
- Jimmy (named at t:41:10): man, dark hair, suit, standing, facing p1 visible, audible
- Captain (named at t:41:15): man, wearing fedora, dark suit, standing visible, audible
- Miss Benton (named at t:41:20): woman, light-colored hat and coat, standing visible
- Tommy Dean (named at t:41:15): man, dark hair, suit, standing, facing p3 visible, audible
- Winlan (named at t:42:01): man, dark hair, suit, standing, facing p5 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Two men face each other in a close-up, one speaking to the other. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “We haven't wanted to bother you, Miss Benton, but have you thought of anything that might help us?” 41:20 · “Winlan works for the Chinese government.” 42:01
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], light-colored hat and coat [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, investigative; themes: investigation, official inquiry, international intrigue; style notes: medium shots and close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera
A group of people, including a woman seated at a desk and several men standing, converse in an office. One man identifies another as working for the Chinese government.
“Hello, Jimmy. Tommy and I were just leaving. Any news?” 41:10 · “Yes, hello, Captain. - How do you do? - You remember Tommy Dean?” 41:15 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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