Sphinx cafe
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; 4 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 1:10:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 162 · shots 557–557. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- Sphinx Cafe (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- unseen, speaking voice audible
- unseen, referred to as 'Maestro' and 'Maiden' mentioned
- Madame Stangani (named at t:71:34): unseen, referred to as 'Madame Stangani' mentioned
- Gekko (named at t:71:34): unseen, referred to as 'Gekko' mentioned
- Seen happening
- A newspaper headline about the Sphinx Cafe in Cairo is shown. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Leave, sir. Go with Gekko. Wait for me.” 71:34
- Seen
- newspaper
- On screen
- CAIRO, EGYPT SPHINX CAFE The manager... of the Sphinx Cafe announces the importation of Mlle. Doro and her Six Morocco Dancing Girls as featured attraction. It is also announced that Madame Svengali, a concert singer, who was quite popular in Europe some five years ago will appear with Madame Stangani at the cafe.
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: performance, control, departure; style notes: static newspaper shot, high-contrast lighting, text-heavy frame
A newspaper headline announces Madame Stangani and her dancing girls at the Sphinx Cafe in Cairo, Egypt. A man speaks to someone off-screen, urging them to cancel an engagement and go to a dressing room, while another man is told to leave with Gekko.
“Won't you please, Maestro? Cancel the engagement. I will go in and tell them. All right. But that spell you had tonight, it was the worst you ever had. And I am afraid, Maiden.” 71:17 · “Take Madame Stangani to her dressing room. I'll join you later.” 71:29 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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