Living room
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 43:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 267–271. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- Time of day
- night evidence: t:43:46
- Period
- 1930s evidence: film release year 1936
- People
- Aunt Marion (named at t:43:53): woman, light hair styled in waves, wearing a patterned dress with a collar visible, audible
- older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
- Also said
- “A little after one in the morning. What did you see?” 43:46 · “I saw my aunt. Was there a light down? A dim night light.” 43:53
- Seen
- floral-patterned armchair [frame:1], dark suit [frame:3], patterned dress [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: suspicion, family, nocturnal mystery; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing, period costume
A woman and an older man are seated in a room with patterned furniture, discussing an event that occurred around 1:00 AM. The woman recounts seeing her aunt in the library, while the man listens and asks questions.
“I suppose I ought to trust you.” 43:31 · “I got up to get a drink of water and...” 43:40 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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