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; 6 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 15:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 49–52. 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, frame:2
- People
- woman with blonde curled hair, wearing a dark sleeveless dress and necklace, seated on a sofa visible
- Mrs. Borton (named at t:15:35): woman with dark hair in a strapless dress with a flower corsage, standing, wearing a necklace and bracelets visible
- man in tuxedo, standing on a raised platform with others visible
- woman in dark evening dress, standing behind sofa visible
- man in tuxedo, standing on platform, clapping visible
- woman with dark hair, wearing a strapless dress and necklace, standing with hands clasped visible
- Seen happening
- A woman sits on a sofa while others stand in the background. [frame:1]
- A group on a raised platform is applauded by others in the room. [frame:2]
- A woman in a strapless dress speaks while holding her hands together. [frame:3]
- The same woman looks surprised or attentive. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Well, put it on ice.” 15:54 · “We'll play the leading roles in this one.” 16:04
- Seen
- sofa, champagne bottle, raised platform, flower arrangement, necklace, bracelets, tuxedo, strapless dress
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and theatrical; themes: social gathering, mystery, performance; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, formal attire, staged lighting, static camera
A woman in evening wear sits on a sofa while others stand in a formal room; later, a group on a raised platform is applauded, and a woman in a strapless dress speaks. The transcript includes lines about champagne, popularity, and playing roles in a mystery.
“Mrs. Borton wins the first bottle of champagne. Good champagne.” 15:35 · “Why, I've never been so popular in my life.” 15:50 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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