Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 20:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 121–122. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit, balding, medium build visible, audible
- man in dark suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- Miss Dubbin (named at t:20:53): older woman, light blouse, plaid skirt, apron-like garment visible, audible
- Also said
- “Now, Mr. Devin, I want you to tell me what happened last night.” 20:55 · “who is always neat and helpful with a quiet tongue and tidy ways.” 21:06
- Seen
- lamp with ornate base, curtained window, armchair, side table, framed picture on wall, stacked papers on table
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: investigation, social hierarchy, domestic labor; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing
Two men stand in a room discussing an investigation while a woman enters and is addressed by one of them. The dialogue references an alibi, a psychological experiment, and events after dinner involving a helper named Helen Smith.
“Little experiment in psychology.” 20:35 · “Miss Dubbin, sir.” 20:53 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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