Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 31:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 193–193. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man, balding, wearing dark suit visible
- unseen audible
- Landis (named at t:32:04): unseen audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a dark suit stands in front of an open closet. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Take a good look, will you, Landis?” 32:04 · “This dress has been worn recently.” 32:06
- Seen
- closet, door, dark suit
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspicious, investigative; themes: mystery, clothing as evidence, hidden secrets; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, confined space
A man in a dark suit examines a closet while off-screen voices discuss a dress found inside, noting its recent wear and muddy hem. The scene takes place in a room with a closet and a closed door, and the dialogue suggests suspicion about the dress's origin.
“No use looking in there. If it were hidden among her clothes, she'd have found it herself.” 31:37 · “Why, look at her. She never wore a dress like that in her life.” 32:00 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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