Private office
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 56:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 344–344. 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 and fedora, standing with hands on hips visible
- man in light suit and fedora, gesturing with right hand visible, audible
- Also said
- “If you still have a man watching Mrs. Tolman, I want you to call him off. And let me convey to Mrs. Tolman in a roundabout way that you've done so.” 56:35 · “I do.” 56:44
- Seen
- {'item': 'ornate wall decor with circular emblem', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden balustrade or railing', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'framed picture on wall', 'frame': 1}
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: surveillance, manipulation, secret arrangements; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s noir, formal attire suggests authority or secrecy
Two men in suits and hats are in a room with ornate wall decor; one gestures while speaking. The dialogue involves arranging an experiment and calling off surveillance on Mrs. Tolman.
“- Here's your experiment. - Yeah, that's quite simple. All I ask is that you place yourself at my disposal tonight, and possibly tomorrow.” 56:26 · “Okay.” 56:32 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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