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 25:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 152–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man, balding, wearing dark suit and tie visible
- middle-aged man, dark hair, wearing dark suit and tie visible
- Mr. Landis (named at t:25:59): man wearing white lab coat, dark hair visible, audible
- Also said
- “Why, I'm going out to lunch. I have an engagement.” 26:05 · “Oh, no, just around here.” 26:09
- Seen
- glass beakers and flasks [frame:1], lab coat [frame:1], window with panes [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: scientific setting, suspicion, social pretense; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films
Three men are in a laboratory; one in a lab coat speaks while the other two listen. The transcript mentions poison gas and an upcoming lunch engagement.
“You have a lot of poison gas, I see.” 25:53 · “But say, Mr. Landis, I wouldn't think of killing old Carson. Oh, of course not.” 25:59 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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