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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 21:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 24 · shots 125–128. 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:1
- Time of day
- night evidence: t:21:47
- Period
- 1930s evidence: film release year 1936
- People
- elderly woman, wearing a striped blouse with a large collar and a patterned skirt, seated in a chair visible, audible
- man, dark suit, standing, younger, clean-shaven visible
- older man, balding, dark suit with white pocket square, standing visible
- Seen happening
- The woman is seated between two men, listening or speaking. [frame:1]
- The woman's face shows fear as she recounts the event. [frame:2]
- The woman looks upward, as if recalling the moment she saw the face at the window. [frame:3]
- The two men stand and listen to the woman as she continues her story. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Right up against the glass.” 21:59 · “Me warn Mr. Henry?” 22:03
- Seen
- bookshelf, armchair, curtains, wall sconce
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: fear, witness testimony, intrusion; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition
An elderly woman recounts being frightened by a man's face at her window late at night, while two men question her in a room with bookshelves. The transcript confirms she was reading before bed and saw the face at nearly midnight.
“It was nearly midnight.” 21:47 · “And there was a man's face.” 21:57 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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