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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 37:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 124–126. 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
- woman, mid-30s, wearing a patterned jacket and dark dress, seated on a sofa visible
- Harrison (named at t:38:12): man, 40s, wearing a dark suit with a flower boutonniere, standing, speaking visible, audible
- man, 40s, wearing a dark suit, standing behind p2, observing visible
- man, 30s, wearing a suit, standing near a table with flowers visible
- man, 30s, wearing a suit, standing near p4 visible
- woman, 30s, wearing a light dress, standing in background visible
- Seen happening
- A woman sits on a sofa while a man stands behind her. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit with a flower boutonniere speaks while another man stands behind him. [frame:2]
- A group of people stand around a seated woman in a formal room. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Oh.” 38:18 · “So that's where you're coiled, eh?” 38:20
- Seen
- sofa, flower boutonniere, table with white flowers, lamp
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: inheritance dispute, suspicion and accusation, formal social gathering under tension; style notes: static medium shots, formal framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio productions
A woman sits on a sofa while men stand around her in a formal room; dialogue reveals a dispute over a will that disinherited Mrs. Edwards. The scene includes a man in a suit with a flower boutonniere speaking to others.
“Have you any idea why your husband quarreled with your secretary, Mrs. Edwards?” 38:02 · “Harrison bitterly objected to the terms of the new will which disinherited Mrs. Edwards.” 38:12 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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