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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 40–41. 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, dark suit, bow tie, formal attire, standing near door visible
- man, light-colored suit, formal attire, standing facing p1 visible
- woman, dark dress with white collar, standing on platform, holding papers visible, audible
- audience members, seen from behind, seated in formal attire visible
- Seen happening
- Two men stand facing each other near a paneled door. [frame:1]
- A woman stands on a raised platform addressing a seated audience. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “We'll act out three titles.” 13:23 · “There'll be a bottle of our very best champagne.” 13:39
- Seen
- paneled walls [frame:1], wall sconces [frame:1], raised platform with carpeted steps [frame:2], piano [frame:2], audience seating [frame:2], papers held by woman [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, anticipatory; themes: social gathering, parlor game, performance; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, formal staging, theatrical lighting on platform
Two men in formal attire speak near a door in a paneled room; a woman addresses a seated audience from a raised platform, announcing a game called 'Indications' involving acting out a song, a mystery book, and a popular movie for a champagne prize.
“Oh, Mrs. Edwards is going to play some sort of game downstairs.” 12:52 · “We're going to play Indications. Good!” 13:17 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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