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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 59:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 358–359. 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, fedora, white pocket square, medium build visible, audible
- man in light-colored fedora and dark coat, seen from back visible
- Bruce (named at t:60:10): man in dark suit and fedora, facing camera, medium build visible
- Landis (named at t:60:07): man in dark coat, being held back by others, face obscured visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a fedora gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:1]
- Three men confront a fourth man who is being restrained. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Bruce here is the detective working for me.” 60:10 · “You identify the firebug, Bruce? All by the dresser. Same height, carriage and walk. Uh-huh.” 60:12
- Seen
- fedora hat, suit with pocket square, chandelier, door frame
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: detective work, confrontation, identity verification; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s noir, static camera
A man in a fedora and suit gestures while speaking in a dimly lit room; another shot shows three men in hats confronting a fourth man who is being held back. The transcript reveals a detective named Bruce is identifying a suspect called 'the firebug' and mentions someone named Landis.
“- Are you hurt, Pat? - No, just raise me. Hurry me. We must catch it.” 59:56 · “- What is all this? - This is my show, Landis.” 60:07 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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