Studio
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 22:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 177–181. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- woman with blonde hair, wearing a dark double-breasted uniform with epaulets visible
- man with mustache, wearing a hat and dark coat visible
- man with long hair and beard, wearing a light jacket visible
- man in dark suit, clean-shaven visible
- Seen happening
- Three men stand together observing the woman. [frame:2]
- The woman sits on a stool with her leg extended toward a painting on an easel while the men look on. [frame:3]
- The woman smiles broadly at the camera. [frame:4]
- Seen
- easel with painting, stool, dark double-breasted uniform, hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: theatrical and slightly voyeuristic; themes: performance, objectification, artistic observation; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, studio-bound composition
A woman in a dark uniform is shown in close-up and medium shots while three men observe her; one man speaks about her feet being beautiful. The setting appears to be an indoor studio or gallery with a painting and easel visible.
“Durian, send her down. Oh, you sit to him? Oh, yes. Milding is my business. Head, hands, feet, everything. Especially feet.” 22:06 · “Isn't that a pretty foot? It is, that is a very pretty indeed. It is, isn't it? Everyone says it's the most beautiful foot in Paris.” 22:15 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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