Library
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 1:17:10 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 91 · shots 348–354. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- library (other, interior) evidence: t:77:19
- People
- Mr. Rankin (named at t:77:19): man, wearing a suit and hat, seen from behind or in profile visible, audible
- Mrs. Rand (named at t:77:19): woman, wearing a hat and coat, smiling in close-up visible, audible
- Mrs. Lundstrom (named at t:77:19): woman, wearing a hat and coat, seen in profile visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Two women and a man stand on a stone bridge outside a building. [frame:1]
- A woman looks out a window at a building across the street. [frame:2]
- A woman in a hat speaks to a man in close-up. [frame:3]
- A woman smiles while speaking to a man. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I was playing checkers with Mr. Potter and I didn't realize.” 77:41 · “You know what you are, Mr. Rankin. You're the absent-minded professor.” 77:46
- Seen
- stone bridge, window, hats, coats
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: academic life, timekeeping, social interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, naturalistic lighting
Two women speak with a man named Mr. Rankin outside a library after hours; he claims he dismissed class early and was playing checkers. The setting is a stone bridge and a library interior, with dialogue confirming the time is 3:44.
“Oh! Mrs. Rand, Mrs. Lundstrom, isn't it after hours you ladies are working too hard at the library?” 77:19 · “You're perfectly right. I dismissed class ten minutes early. Yes. That's 3:44.” 77:32 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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