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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:31:38 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 63 · shots 329–330. 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
- Mr. Cross (named at t:91:52): man in dark coat and hat, visible in shadow visible, audible
- Tom Crocker (named at t:91:55): unseen, voice only audible
- Kitty (named at t:95:35): unseen, voice only audible
- Johnny (named at t:95:35): unseen, voice only audible
- Seen happening
- The scene ends in darkness with repeated calls of 'Johnny.' [frame:2]
- Also said
- “I didn't do it.” 94:16 · “Jeepers, I love you, Johnny.” 95:35
- Seen
- man in hat and coat, dark interior with faint window light, near-total darkness
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desperate and claustrophobic; themes: guilt, self-punishment, false accusation, obsession; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, tight framing, descent into darkness
A man identified as Mr. Cross is confronted by a reporter named Tom Crocker in a dim interior; he later cries out in distress, claiming innocence and invoking a woman named Kitty and a man named Johnny. The scene ends in near-total darkness with repeated calls of 'Johnny.'
“Hello, Mr. Cross.” 91:52 · “Not me. There's no such thing. Mr. Cross, nobody gets away with murder.” 92:40 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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