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; 5 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 13:47 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 17 · shots 42–43. 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 in tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible
- man in tuxedo, light hair, medium build visible
- man in tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible
- woman in evening gown, dark hair visible
- woman in dark dress, light hair, possibly a maid visible
- Seen happening
- Three men in tuxedos stand in conversation in a formal room. [frame:1]
- Two men face each other closely in conversation; a woman stands in the background. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Has Brandon been showing you some of the treasure trove he brought back from China?” 13:59 · “Did he show you the beautiful manuscript he has of the legend of Wu Wang? No, I didn't know he had it.” 14:03
- Seen
- tuxedo, evening gown, curtains, staircase, flower boutonniere
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: social gathering, cultural artifacts, performance; style notes: medium shots, formal attire, studio lighting, static framing
Three men in tuxedos converse in a formal interior while a woman stands nearby; one man asks if another has seen a manuscript from China. The transcript includes a line about a first performance and a reference to a treasure trove from China.
“my first appearance as a performer. Oh. And never mind the laugh.” 13:51 · “I expect to be very good.” 13:56 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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