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The Dark Hour · Beat 42 · permalink

Private office

17:26–17:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:3217:32

Play from 17:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 103–103. 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
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, wearing a dark dress, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands holding a seated woman's hands. [frame:1]
Also said
“We found a number of clues.” 17:30
Seen
bookshelf [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and consoling; themes: comfort, mystery, investigation; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, formal attire

A man in a suit stands holding a seated woman's hands in a room with bookshelves and armchairs. The transcript indicates he is comforting her and mentions they found clues.

“Jim, I'm terribly upset.” 17:30 · “There, there, don't worry.” 17:30 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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Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 17:32 (passage 17:26–17:37); US record: No renewal found

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