Private office
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 23:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 136–138. 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 in dark suit and tie, dark hair, medium build visible
- man in dark suit and tie, receding hairline, older, stern expression visible
- older man, balding, wearing dark suit and striped tie, standing near a lamp visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit speaks to another man. [frame:1]
- An older man with a stern expression is shown. [frame:2]
- Three men stand facing each other in a room. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “You ever hear of Poxy, Wilder?” 23:46 · “That's all. Send in Miss Smith.” 23:51
- Seen
- lamp, curtains, suit, tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, mystery, formal authority; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films
Two men in suits speak in a room; a third man enters. The dialogue references 'Poxy, Wilder' and ends with a request to send in 'Miss Smith'.
“Excuse me, sir.” 23:42 · “I don't know what you're talking about.” 23:43 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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