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 38:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 292–294. 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
- woman with light-colored bobbed hair, wearing a dark coat over a light blouse visible
- Kleiner (named at t:38:36): man with dark beard and hair, wearing a dark coat visible
- Seen happening
- The man holds the woman's arm and leans toward her. [frame:1]
- The man looks down at the woman as she looks down. [frame:2]
- The man looks upward while the woman looks down. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Oh, poor Kleiner.” 38:36 · “Or your nerves are jumping like mad.” 38:40
- Seen
- wall-mounted lamp, dark coat, light blouse
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: power imbalance, emotional distress, intimacy under duress; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces, static camera
A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior; the man holds the woman's arm and leans toward her while she looks down. The transcript includes a curse and a reference to 'Kleiner' and 'nerves jumping'.
“Are you comfortable with it?” 38:26 · “Fuck!” 38:33 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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