Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 50:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 51 · shots 158–162. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Mr. Stokinop (named at t:51:51): man in dark suit and tie, seated, holding glasses, middle-aged, balding visible, audible
- man in dark suit and fedora, standing, middle-aged visible
- man in dark robe or pajamas, standing, middle-aged visible
- man in dark suit, standing, older, balding visible
- man in dark suit, standing behind p1, Asian appearance visible
- Also said
- “She was threatening to cause a terrific scandal.” 51:39 · “Through that French window I left it purposely open.” 52:06
- Seen
- {'item': 'glasses', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'armchair', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'fedora hat', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'wall sconces', 'frame': 4}
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: suspicion, secrets, past relationships; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition typical of 1930s detective films
A man in a suit is questioned about a woman he knew in Shanghai who threatened to cause a scandal if he refused to marry her. He claims she was on her way to mail a letter and he returned through a French window.
“She was on her way to mail a letter when we met her.” 50:45 · “She was insisting on us getting married.” 51:34 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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