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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 41:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 326–328. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Woman with blonde hair, wearing a white bonnet and a dark coat with a light collar visible
- Man wearing a dark hat and dark coat, mostly seen from the side or back visible
- Seen happening
- Woman looks surprised and concerned [frame:1]
- Man approaches the woman and gestures toward her [frame:2]
- Man stands close to the woman, who looks up at him with a tearful expression [frame:3]
- Also said
- “You've been crying.” 41:34
- Seen
- bonnet, dark coat, hat, painting of a woman
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: reunion, emotional distress, mysterious encounter; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock
A woman in a bonnet and dark coat stands in a dim interior, speaking with a man in a hat who approaches her. The transcript indicates she has been crying and expresses surprise at seeing him after a long time.
“Oh, don't go leap, shim.” 41:24 · “It's been so long since I've seen you. But I... I must, I... Ah?” 41:27 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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