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The Dark Hour · Beat 29 · permalink

Private office

10:34–11:00 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; 3 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 10:3810:38Frame at 10:5110:51

Play from 10:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 67–68. 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
  • older man, white hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • Jim (named at t:10:37): younger man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, standing in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat enters a room through a doorway while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • Two men in suits face each other in conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“There's Foote who first found it.” 10:44 · “I woke about 2 o'clock, sir.” 10:59
Seen
potted plant, doorway, dark suit, uniform with cap, vase with flowers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and investigative; themes: crime investigation, authority and hierarchy, mystery; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing

Two men in suits are in a room with a doorway and a potted plant; one is entering while the other stands near a doorway. A police officer is visible in the doorway. The transcript mentions a body in the library and a character named Foote.

“Come in and stay at the door, Jim.” 10:37 · “The body's in the library.” 10:42 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 10:38 (passage 10:34–11:00); US record: No renewal found

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