Private office
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; 3 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 26:40 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 43 · shots 217–217. 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
- man with long dark hair and dark coat, mouth open as if speaking or singing visible
- woman with blonde bobbed hair, wearing dark clothing, looking up at p3 visible
- man with short light hair, wearing dark suit, leaning toward p2 and speaking visible, audible
- Seen happening
- p3 leans toward p2 and speaks while p1 looks on with mouth open [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Tarts for supper. Yes, and you won't get any if you don't come and play for them.” 26:52
- Seen
- stairs [frame:1], dark coats [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: performance, control, social ritual; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-up framing, static camera
Three people are shown in a dimly lit interior with stairs in the background; one man speaks to a woman while another man looks on. The transcript includes fragmented lines about England, a butterfly in mutton soup, and tarts for supper.
“Drillby in England.” 26:41 · “would be like a butterfly in mutton soup. Oh, God. Billy.” 26:44 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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