Laboratory
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 25:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 148–151. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie visible
- man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible
- Mr. Blake (named at t:25:44): man with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and tie, possibly a lab coat visible, audible
- Also said
- “Mr. Blake.” 25:44 · “Oh, just experimenting.” 25:46
- Seen
- glassware and scientific equipment [frame:1], gas cylinders with gauges [frame:4], laboratory table [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: scientific inquiry, interpersonal suspicion, identity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of 1930s studio productions
Three men stand in a laboratory with scientific equipment; one identifies himself as Mr. Blake while another mentions Henry Carson. The scene ends with a shot of gas cylinders against a tiled wall.
“Who?” 25:34 · “Henry Carson. He was a friend of yours, I believe.” 25:35 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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