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; 2 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 29:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 199–200. 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, dark suit, thin build, clean-shaven, standing visible, audible
- Miss Morton (named at t:29:50): woman, dark hat, light blouse, seated, older visible, audible
- Also said
- “that you accept my meagre hospitality.” 30:00 · “You're not a bit like a doctor.” 30:28
- Seen
- desk, lamp, chair, hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and polite; themes: danger, hospitality, companionship, social roles; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period furniture
A man and a woman are in a room with furniture; the man speaks to the woman, who responds. The transcript shows a conversation about danger, hospitality, and accompanying someone to Acacia Road.
“Miss Morton.” 29:50 · “But your homo-taurus friend is unreservedly dangerous.” 29:54 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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