Private office
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 2:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 18–21. 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 with mustache, wearing suit and tie, seated at table visible
- man with shaved head, wearing sleeveless shirt, leaning over table visible
- man with short hair, wearing collared shirt, standing and pointing at map visible
- Seen happening
- A man points to a ground plan on a table. [frame:3]
- A finger traces a path on the plan, indicating a cornerstone and a point to send something. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “That is the ground plan.” 3:03 · “The Count's free mix-up.” 3:08
- Seen
- ground plan, table, finger
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: strategic planning, mystery, collaboration; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, close-ups on hands and maps to emphasize planning
Three men examine a ground plan in an interior setting. One man points to locations on the plan while others listen, and dialogue refers to a fortress and a cornerstone.
“Where is this place?” 2:57 · “The fortress of Angra.” 3:00 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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