Theatre
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 1:18:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 607–612. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:4
- People
- older man, grey hair, formal dark coat and bow tie visible
- man in dark suit, seated at table visible
- man in top hat, back to camera visible
- woman in light dress, standing on stage visible
- Seen happening
- A man in formal wear walks forward, looking down. [frame:1]
- The man approaches a table where another man is seated. [frame:3]
- The camera shows a wider view of the theatre, including patrons and a performer on stage. [frame:4]
- Seen
- formal coat [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], top hat [frame:4], stage platform [frame:4], tables and chairs [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and formal; themes: performance, social gathering, formal attire; style notes: static camera, high-contrast lighting, medium and wide shots, black-and-white film
A man in formal attire walks through a dimly lit venue with tables and other patrons. The scene shifts to show a wider view of the space, including a performer on a raised platform.
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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