Sidewalk
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 33:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 213–213. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Mr. Holmes (named at t:33:33): man in bowler hat and overcoat visible
- Dr. Watson (named at t:33:34): man in fedora and long coat visible
- Miss Molson (named at t:33:29): woman in cloche hat and coat, holding a bag visible
- Seen happening
- Three people stand together outdoors near a doorway. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Miss Molson?” 33:29 · “Mr. Holmes.” 33:33
- Seen
- {'item': 'doorway with decorative glass', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'handbag held by woman', 'frame': 1}
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and inquisitive; themes: introduction of characters, mystery setup; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films
Three people stand outdoors near a doorway; one is addressed as Mr. Holmes and another as Dr. Watson. The transcript includes a request to come with someone and a question about Miss Molson.
“Will you give me your worthy and not policeman?” 33:15 · “Come with me, please.” 33:20 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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