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; 2 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 24:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 13 · shots 104–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man seated, wearing a dark jacket over a light collared shirt, thin build, short dark hair, mustache visible
- Mr. Higgins (named at t:24:55): man standing, wearing a light suit and tie, older, balding, heavier build visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man seated at a table looks up at a standing man. [frame:1]
- The standing man gestures while speaking to the seated man. [frame:2]
- The seated man looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “That's what I mean. I don't mind your damning and your blasting. But there's a certain word I must ask you, not to use.” 25:16 · “except perhaps in moments of extreme and justifiable excitement.” 25:32
- Seen
- table [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], glass or bottle on table [frame:1], typewriter or machine on table [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: language propriety, class distinction, social norms; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films
Two men are in a room; one seated, one standing, discussing language and propriety. The standing man is told not to use a certain word before a girl, which he claims never to have uttered except in extreme excitement.
“Excuse me, Mr. Higgins.” 24:55 · “Yes? Will you be very particular what you see before the girl?” 25:02 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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