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The Dark Hour · Beat 101 · permalink

Private office

41:18–41:28 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2341:23

Play from 41:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 253–253. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a telephone receiver to his ear while standing by a window. [frame:1]
Seen
telephone receiver [frame:1], window with curtains [frame:1], chair back [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, communication, suspense; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, classic 1930s film noir composition

A man in a dark suit stands by a window, holding a telephone receiver to his ear. The room contains heavy curtains and a visible chair back, suggesting an interior setting.

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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Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 41:23 (passage 41:18–41:28); US record: No renewal found

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