Private office
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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 41:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 255–256. 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 in dark suit, back to camera, medium build visible
- Landis (named at t:41:33): older man, balding, wearing dark suit with pocket square, standing with hands in pockets visible, audible
- Seen happening
- One man points at the window sill while the other looks on. [frame:1]
- The man continues pointing at the sill as the other watches. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “- See that out there? - Yes.” 41:43 · “Larabette is covered with footprints that have been carefully trodden out.” 41:46
- Seen
- window with curtains, window sill, dark suits, pocket square
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspicious, investigative; themes: mystery, investigation, clues; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of 1930s studio films
Two men in suits examine a window sill and the ground outside, discussing muddy marks and footprints. One man points to the sill while the other observes, and they mention a place called Larabette.
“Look here, Landis.” 41:33 · “Looks as if some very muddy article was dragged across the sill.” 41:37 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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