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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 28:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 64–66. 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:2
- People
- man seen from behind, wearing a dark coat, thinning hair visible
- ghostly figure, glowing, indistinct features visible
- man in formal dark coat, side profile, older visible
- man in dark coat, facing p3, younger visible
- woman in dark dress and hat, between p3 and p4 visible
- woman in long fur coat and hat, standing alone visible
- Seen happening
- A ghostly figure appears behind a man. [frame:1]
- Three people stand in conversation in a dim room with candles. [frame:2]
- A woman in a fur coat stands alone in a shadowy room. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Beyond the Gulf.” 28:35 · “The money is due and must be paid. But, sir, that's impossible. Then I shall have no alternative but to take immediate steps to recover it.” 28:43
- Seen
- candlesticks, fur coat, hat, ghostly glow
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and spectral; themes: memory, consequence, supernatural intervention; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, period costumes, ghostly visual effects
A spectral figure addresses a man from behind, followed by a scene with three people in formal attire conversing, and then a woman in a fur coat standing alone in a dim room. The transcript includes dialogue from a spirit and a business dispute over unpaid money.
“I am the spirit of Christmas past. I am here to show you the things that have been.” 28:24 · “Look back.” 28:33 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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