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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
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Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 361–363. 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
- Landis (named at t:60:22): older man, white hair, wearing a dark overcoat visible, audible
- Van Dess (named at t:61:07): man in dark suit and fedora, heavyset, stern expression visible, audible
- man in dark suit and fedora, standing beside p2 visible
- man in police uniform, partially visible behind p2 visible
- Seen happening
- The group stands in a tense confrontation in a room with wood paneling and overhead lights. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “We're saving you the trouble. We're charging you with the murder of your brother and the murder of foot.” 60:37 · “Come on, Landis. Let's find that dagger.” 61:12
- Seen
- fedora hats [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], police uniform [frame:1], wood-paneled walls [frame:1], overhead lighting fixture [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: accusation, confrontation, legal entanglement; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, confined interior space
A man named Landis is confronted by several men in a room, accused of multiple crimes including murder and arson; he denies the charges while one man, Van Dess, presses him to confess. The scene ends with the group preparing to search for a dagger.
“Mr. Landis.” 60:22 · “What do you think we're going to charge you? Well, dressing as a woman, I know it's illegal.” 60:30 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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