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The Dark Hour · Beat 157 · permalink

Private office

1:03:00–1:03:31 Registered 1936

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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:111:03:11Frame at 1:03:261:03:26

Play from 1:03:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 68 · shots 374–375. 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
  • woman, dark dress, light hair styled up, standing with hand on hip visible
  • Bruce (named at t:63:01): man, suit, holding hat, mustache, standing visible, audible
  • Jack Dalton (named at t:63:10): not visible mentioned
  • Mr. Dollar (named at t:63:10): not visible mentioned
  • Sherlock (named at t:63:27): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman stands at a doorway, hand on hip, looking into another room. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns to face a man in a suit who has entered the room. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, I know what you're wondering. I'll just see if she's presentable.” 63:21 · “You'll find Sherlock in there. Thank you.” 63:27
Seen
door, armchair, framed portrait, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: confrontation, mystery, deception; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

A woman in a dark dress stands at a doorway, then turns to speak with a man in a suit holding a hat. The dialogue suggests a confrontation involving a character named Jack Dalton and a reference to 'Sherlock' in another room.

“Okay, Bruce.” 63:01 · “Ah, ha, ha! Cleared as last and you're foiled again, Jack Dalton. - I'm sorry, Mr. Dollar. - Oh, forget it. I suppose you want to talk to the mastermind.” 63:10 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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Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 1:03:11 (passage 1:03:00–1:03:31); US record: No renewal found

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