Living room
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 43:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 272–274. 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
- People
- woman, light hair in curls, wearing a dark patterned dress with a bow at the neck, seated visible
- man, older, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing visible
- Seen happening
- A woman sits in a chair, looking off to the side. [frame:1]
- A man stands beside the seated woman, looking at her. [frame:2]
- The man and woman remain in the same positions, facing each other. [frame:3]
- Mentioned
- The woman described in the transcript put her fingers to her lips and waved a kiss before leaving. [t:44:02]
- Also said
- “Something dark.” 44:09 · “I suppose it might.” 44:20
- Seen
- floral upholstered chair [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2], patterned dress with bow [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: identity confusion, domestic mystery, visual ambiguity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, intimate framing
A woman in a dark patterned dress sits in a chair while a man in a suit stands beside her; they are in a dimly lit room with floral upholstery. The transcript describes a figure who waved a kiss and left, with the speaker questioning whether it was the housemaid or Aunt Marion.
“She put her fingers to her lips.” 44:02 · “What sort of clothes was she wearing?” 44:06 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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