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The Arizona Raiders · Beat 40 · permalink

Private office

9:02–9:25 Registered 1936

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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:059:05Frame at 9:099:09Frame at 9:189:18Frame at 9:249:24

Play from 9:02 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 21 · shots 78–82. 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:2
People
  • man, young, wearing a suit and tie, dark hair visible
  • woman, young, wearing a dark dress with a white ruffled collar and a hat with feathers visible
  • Alonzo Q. Mulhoff (named at t:9:12): man, older, bald, wearing a dark robe or coat with a white shirt and bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand before an older man seated at a desk. [frame:1]
Also said
“Alonzo Q. Mulhoff.” 9:12 · “put in for punctuation, I suppose.” 9:22
Seen
desk, sign reading 'PEACE' and '1000 LINES', window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly humorous; themes: marriage, bureaucracy, identity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting

A man and a woman stand before an older man seated at a desk, who appears to be officiating a marriage. The transcript reveals the couple is being asked for their names, with the man identifying himself as Alonzo Q. Mulhoff.

“You know, this is the first time I ever was married.” 9:02 · “I'd better put your names down so the law knows who's marrying who.” 9:07 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 Arizona Raiders (1936) at 9:05 (passage 9:02–9:25); US record: No renewal found

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