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; 3 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 31:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 245–246. 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
- Trillby (named at t:31:20): bearded man, dark coat, intense expression visible, audible
- blonde woman, seated, wearing dark dress visible, audible
- man with slicked-back hair, dark suit, standing behind p2 visible
- Seen happening
- A second man places his hands on the woman's shoulders. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “My headache's gone.” 31:35 · “How on earth did you do it? I told you. It is so easy. Oh, oh.” 31:37
- Seen
- dark coat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2], wooden furniture [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: hypnosis, control, relief; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera
A man speaks to a woman named Trillby, who responds and then expresses surprise at her headache being gone. Another man is present and appears to comfort her.
“Can you hear me, Trillby?” 31:20 · “Yeah.” 31:23 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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