Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 29:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 195–198. 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
- woman, wearing a dark hat with a flower, light blouse, dark cardigan, medium build, appears young adult visible
- man, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, pocket square, mustache, slicked-back hair, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
- man, dark suit, white shirt, bow tie, thin build, appears middle-aged visible
- Seen
- hat with flower, dark suit with pocket square, bow tie, bookshelf or cabinet in background
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or formal; themes: dialogue-driven scene, formal attire, interpersonal clarity; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, typical of early 1930s studio production
A woman and two men are shown in close-up shots during a dialogue exchange. The transcript confirms a brief verbal exchange about clarity, with one person affirming understanding.
“Do I make that quite clear?” 29:42 · “Perfectly.” 29:47 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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