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; 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 53:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 331–337. 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
- Mr. Watson (named at t:53:48): older man, white hair, dark suit, standing visible, audible
- younger man, dark hair, dark suit, standing, hands on hips visible, audible
- man seated, dark suit, hat on lap visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Three men stand and sit in an office discussing a case. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Carson's wound didn't bleed.” 54:21 · “Carbon monoxide.” 54:55
- Seen
- suit, hat, door, plant
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and analytical; themes: investigation, forensic deduction, suspicion; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, formal composition typical of 1930s detective films
Three men in suits discuss a murder investigation in an office; one man, identified as Mr. Watson, reports on gas tank pressure and suggests carbon monoxide poisoning killed both a man and a mouse. The conversation implies the victim was already dead when stabbed.
“The pressure is good in all the gas tanks except the carbon monoxide. Which means?” 53:54 · “that most of the gas has been drawn off.” 53:59 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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