Living room
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:07:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 401–403. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- woman, curly hair, wearing dark dress with large bow at neck visible, audible
- older man, bald, wearing dark suit and tie visible, audible
- younger man, dark hair, wearing dark suit visible
- Seen happening
- The woman is visible speaking in a living room. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit listens intently to the woman. [frame:2]
- Three people are visible in a living room: a standing man, a woman in a patterned dress, and a seated man in a suit. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “You accused Mr. Bernard of killing Cawson.” 67:23 · “Two weeks ago I was fool enough to remark in Chong's hearing that if somebody would only murder Henry Carson I'd be the happiest woman in the world.” 67:29
- Seen
- ornate wall paneling, lamp with pleated shade, coffee table with vase, armchair, framed painting
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: confession, misdirection, moral dilemma; style notes: static medium shots, ornate interior decor, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films
A woman in a dark dress with a bow speaks in a decorated room while a man in a suit listens; another man stands nearby. The transcript reveals a confession about shielding someone from a murder charge and a revelation about who really committed the crime.
“Do you mean to say that you confessed to such a crime to shield me?” 67:08 · “But I didn't do it.” 67:14 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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