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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:03:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 376–379. 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
- younger man, dark hair, wearing a suit, standing visible, audible
- older man, bald, wearing a dark suit, initially seated then standing visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The younger man stands while the older man sits in an armchair. [frame:1]
- The older man leans back in his chair while the younger man gestures toward him. [frame:2]
- The older man stands and grabs the younger man's arm. [frame:3]
- The two men stand facing each other, the older man still holding the younger man's arm. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “You killed Henry Carson.” 64:09 · “I never could figure why Foots had turned back that gas jet in the library. It didn't make sense. But you were there too. It was easy for you to enter the library while I was talking to the cook.” 64:12
- Seen
- armchair [frame:1], fireplace [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], side table [frame:1], clock [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: accusation, revelation, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, formal framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films
Two men are in a formal room; one accuses the other of murder after a discussion about a gas jet. The accused denies it, but the accuser claims to have him by the hand.
“See, now that it's all over, do you mind telling me how you happen to suspect Carson?” 63:35 · “I have him by the hand.” 64:04 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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