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The Dark Hour · Beat 97 · permalink

Living room

40:09–40:30 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:2040:20

Play from 40:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 245–245. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Miss Matt (named at t:40:15): woman in dark top and light apron, older, light hair visible, audible
Also said
“Will you wait in the library?” 40:19
Seen
door [frame:1], plant [frame:1], apron [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: domestic service, class hierarchy; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, period costume

A man and a woman in a domestic interior exchange dialogue about answering a bell and waiting in the library. The woman, wearing a maid's uniform, is instructed to send for foot and to have the man wait in the library.

“Takes you a long time to answer that bell. It's my job to open the door first.” 40:11 · “Will you send foot to us please Miss Matt. Yes sir.” 40:15 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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Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 40:20 (passage 40:09–40:30); US record: No renewal found

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