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; 4 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.
Play from 1:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 12–12. 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
- Elta (named at t:1:50): woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a striped blouse and dark skirt, neat hairstyle visible, audible
- Mr. Herkney (named at t:1:49): not visible audible, mentioned
- Mr. Benaut (named at t:1:50): not visible audible, mentioned
- Landis (named at t:1:58): not visible mentioned
- Seen happening
- A woman enters a room and greets two men. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Ugh.” 1:57 · “I must have started something when I introduced you to Landis.” 1:58
- Seen
- striped blouse, dark skirt, armchair, fireplace mantel, wall clock, framed picture
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: introduction, social protocol, unspoken tension; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, period costume, interior set with minimal props
A woman enters a room and greets two men, one of whom is addressed as Mr. Benaut. She is told to sit down, and a comment is made about introducing her to someone named Landis.
“Good afternoon, Mr. Herkney. How are you doing? Fine, Miss Carson. Thank you for asking. Go right in.” 1:49 · “Hello, Mr. Benaut. Hello, Elta. Sit down, please.” 1:50 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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