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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 40:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 254–257. 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:2
- People
- Watson (named at t:40:34): man in dark suit, medium build, clean-shaven, standing visible, audible
- man in dark suit, medium build, mustache, standing visible, audible
- man in dark suit, thin, standing near ladder visible
- Seen happening
- A wooden stub impression is visible on the floor. [frame:1]
- Two men stand near a table, examining the floor. [frame:2]
- A man stands alone in a room with shelves and a window. [frame:3]
- A man stands beside a ladder and a lit lamp. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “It's the impress of a wooden stub, my dear Watson.” 40:41 · “Yes, and no one could scale that wall, much less a man without one with only one leg. No, but suppose he had a friend here.” 40:49
- Seen
- wooden stub impression [frame:1], table [frame:2], ladder [frame:4], lamp [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: investigative and analytical; themes: detection, physical evidence, collaboration; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, indoor setting
Two men examine a wooden stub impression on the floor, discussing its significance and the impossibility of a one-legged man scaling a wall alone. A third man is seen near a ladder and lamp, suggesting a different location or a cutaway.
“You see that, Watson?” 40:34 · “That's not a footmark. No, it's something much more valuable to us.” 40:38 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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