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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 30:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 49 · shots 201–206. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man seated at desk, wearing suit and bow tie visible
- man standing, wearing dark suit visible
- Miss Morstron (named at t:30:39): woman entering, wearing dark dress and hat visible
- Mrs. Hudson (named at t:30:34): woman in dark dress, standing near doorway visible
- man in uniform, seen from back visible
- unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A hand rings a service bell on a desk. [frame:1]
- A woman enters a room where two men are present. [frame:2]
- A woman stands in a doorway, looking surprised. [frame:3]
- A woman and a man in uniform stand near a doorway. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Miss Morstron will dine with me here tonight.” 30:39 · “Yes, we'll give Dr. Watson a chop as well.” 30:48
- Seen
- service bell, desk with papers, lamp, books, framed picture
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: social protocol, domestic service, guest arrival; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged interior
A woman enters a room where a man sits at a desk; another man stands nearby. The seated man speaks about arranging dinner for Miss Morstron and Dr. Watson. A housekeeper is mentioned as being entrusted with the guest's comfort.
“Now, Miss Mauston.” 30:32 · “I'm going to turn you over to my trusted housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, who will see that you're made comfortable.” 30:34 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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