Private office
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; 2 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 1:01:11 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 65 · shots 196–196. 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:1
- People
- Harrison (named at t:61:17): man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, slicked-back hair, medium build visible, audible
- Mr. Wong (named at t:61:20): man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, dark hair, medium build, holding a pipe visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Mr. Wong tells Harrison to be comfortable while he considers his words. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “That you knew that Edwards had obtained possession of the eye of the daughter of the moon? That you and the maid Drina won his confidence and came to America with him to get the stone?” 61:29 · “Aren't you assuming too much, Mr. Wong?” 61:40
- Seen
- pipe [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], white shirts and ties [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: suspicion, deception, mystery, confrontation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period decor
Two men in suits converse in a dimly lit room; one identifies himself as Harrison and questions the other about a letter and a stolen artifact. The dialogue implies suspicion and a prior relationship involving deception and murder.
“Sorry to be so late but I met Stroganoff. He wanted to know where you live so I brought him along.” 61:10 · “I came to ask you, Mr. Wong, not to open that letter.” 61:20 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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