Theatre
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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:19:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 629–635. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- woman, light-colored dress with puffed sleeves, light hair styled up, appears young visible
- Billy (named at t:79:53): man, dark suit, dark hair, appears middle-aged visible
- man, light-colored suit, standing on a raised platform visible
- man, dark suit, seated in background visible
- Seen happening
- A woman touches her neck and looks alarmed. [frame:1]
- A man in a light suit stands on a stage-like platform with others seated below. [frame:3]
- A man in a dark suit holds a woman who is lying down. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “It's Billy...” 79:53 · “I'm right here with you.” 79:54
- Seen
- light-colored dress with puffed sleeves [frame:1], dark suit [frame:4], stage or raised platform [frame:3], curtains or backdrop [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and emotional; themes: distress, reassurance, performance; style notes: close-ups on faces, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging, black-and-white film
A woman in a light dress appears distressed in close-up, then a man in dark clothing is seen holding her as she lies down. A wider shot shows a stage or performance space with figures in the background. The transcript includes cries of alarm and reassurance.
“Oh, my God.” 79:35 · “Sylvie!” 79:51 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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