Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 54:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 165–165. 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
- man wearing glasses, suit, and tie, seated at a desk visible
- Sen Yud (named at t:54:36): man wearing dark robe and cap, standing, holding paper visible
- Seen happening
- Two men examine a document at a desk. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Here, let's up there and hope I something.” 54:42
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], document [frame:1], ornamental object [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: investigation, document analysis, cultural provenance; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static composition
Two men examine a document at a desk in an interior setting; one man stands while the other sits. A transcript line mentions paper bought from China by the Kong Li Company.
“Sen Yud Say, paper bought from China by Kong Li Company.” 54:36 · “This old paper of very few people.” 54:40 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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