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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 38:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 53 · shots 245–245. 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 in dark suit and bow tie, holding a weapon visible, audible
- Watson (named at t:38:14): man in overcoat, standing beside p1 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- p1 holds up a weapon and warns p2 not to touch it [frame:1]
- Also said
- “causing almost instantaneous death.” 38:27 · “That weapons are used by the natives of the...” 38:42
- Seen
- poisoned weapon [frame:1], overcoat [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and analytical; themes: forensic examination, exotic danger, scientific deduction; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting focused on the weapon and speakers, typical of early 1930s studio drama
Two men examine a deadly poisoned weapon in a dimly lit interior. One man warns the other not to touch it, explaining its lethal mechanism and origin.
“Like a sword. Don't touch it, Watson.” 38:14 · “It's deadly poisonous.” 38:16 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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