Living room
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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 2:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 6 · shots 16–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Elsa (named at t:2:46): woman, light hair, wearing a striped blouse, seated visible, audible
- Mr. Bernard (named at t:2:41): man, bald, wearing a dark suit, seated visible, audible
- woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned dress and apron, standing visible
- Seen happening
- A maid stands behind Mr. Bernard and Elsa. [frame:1]
- Elsa pours tea from a silver pot. [frame:2]
- Mr. Bernard holds a teacup while speaking to Elsa. [frame:3]
- Elsa holds a teacup and looks at Mr. Bernard. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Oh, I suppose it's natural enough for two elderly men not to venture out of the house after dark.” 2:54 · “There are the mysteries in the neighborhood, you know.” 3:14
- Seen
- tea service, armchair, sofa, fireplace mantel, wallpaper
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspicious; themes: domestic unease, suspicion of family members, social propriety masking hidden tensions; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition typical of 1930s studio productions
A woman named Elsa speaks with a man identified as Mr. Bernard in a room with tea service; she expresses unease about her uncles' behavior and mentions neighborhood mysteries. A maid is briefly visible in the background.
“Say, if you get any more crazy notions about me, you can meet Landis in your uncle's home instead of my garden.” 2:29 · “I don't feel that everything is right with my uncles.” 2:43 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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