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; 3 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 38:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 65 · shots 295–297. 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 blonde hair, light-colored dress, appears young and distressed visible
- Liebschel (named at t:39:02): man with dark hair and beard, wearing a dark coat, appears intense and older visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The man and woman are seated close together, facing each other. [frame:1]
- The woman looks up at the man with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
- The man stares intensely forward, his face filling the frame. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Poor Lisa.” 38:52 · “Look me in the eyes, Liebschel.” 39:02
- Seen
- dark coat [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: power dynamics, emotional control, personal confrontation; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock
A man and a woman are in a close, intense interaction; the man speaks to the woman, calling her 'Liebschel', while she appears distressed. The scene is shot in black and white with dramatic lighting, focusing on their faces.
“And your skin?” 38:46 · “Oh, it's hot like fire.” 38:48 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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