Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 24–24. 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 clothing, visible in profile, appears middle-aged visible, audible
- partially visible, dark clothing, likely seated or standing behind desk audible, mentioned
- Also said
- “Bye-bye.” 13:03 · “Good night, sir. And a merry Christmas. Bah! Humbug!” 13:18
- Seen
- key [t:13:08], desk or counter [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dismissive; themes: workplace conflict, holiday resentment, class tension; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on one character, high contrast shadows
A man in a dark interior speaks to another person off-screen about Christmas leave and wages, ending with a 'Bah! Humbug!' as he dismisses them. The scene is dimly lit and appears to take place in an office or similar workspace.
“Always ready and willing to quit your work, I notice.” 12:24 · “It only happens once a year, sir.” 12:56 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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