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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 7:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 18–20. 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, middle-aged, wearing a patterned robe visible, audible
- Valerie (named at t:7:57): woman, dark hair, wearing a shiny jacket visible, audible
- man, back to camera, wearing a dark suit visible
- man, wearing a light-colored uniform or apron visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a robe stands in a room, looking at a table lamp. [frame:1]
- A woman confronts the man in the robe. [frame:2]
- A man in a suit stands at the front door with a delivery person. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “We'll all be murdered.” 7:55 · “They said to carry the curse of Emperor Hong Chong Chu.” 8:05
- Seen
- table lamp [frame:1], patterned robe [frame:1], shiny jacket [frame:2], front door [frame:3], delivery package [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: superstition, forbidden objects, domestic conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, dramatic lighting with shadows
A man and a woman argue in a room about a jewel's curse, then a man in a suit stands at the front door with a delivery person. The transcript reveals the jewel is linked to an Emperor's wife and a superstition about leaving China.
“I was receiving the eye of the daughter of the moon.” 7:45 · “You didn't bring that jewel into this house.” 7:51 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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