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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 6–9. 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
- Madame Honorine (named at t:1:24): woman wearing a hat and a cape with fur trim, mid-adult visible, audible
- Monsieur (named at t:1:31): man in dark suit, seen from behind or in profile, mid-adult visible, audible
- Also said
- “Monsieur, he's composé.” 1:35 · “Compulsive. You will wait.” 1:40
- Seen
- piano, candle, hat, cape with fur trim
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: class distinction, authority, waiting; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, period costumes
A woman in a hat and cape speaks with a man in a dim room; a piano and candle are visible. The dialogue includes references to 'Madame Honorine' and 'Monsieur', and the man is described as 'composé'.
“- Madame Honorine. - What's wrong, Gekko? - Madame.” 1:24 · “Monsieur?” 1:31 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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