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; 5 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 43:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 265–265. 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, seated, wearing a bow tie and pocket square visible
- man in dark suit, standing, back to camera visible
- man in dark suit, standing, partially visible behind p1 visible
- Sherlock Holmes (named at t:43:29): man in dark suit, standing, facing p1 visible, audible
- Dr. Watson (named at t:43:37): man in dark suit, standing, facing p1 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit sits at a table while others stand around him. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “How are you, sir? I'm all right, John. Thank you. How are you?” 43:34 · “Oh, just a little private investigation?” 43:46
- Seen
- round wooden table [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: mystery, investigation, social hierarchy; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costumes, minimal set decoration
A man in a suit sits at a table while others stand around him in a dimly lit room; dialogue identifies one as Sherlock Holmes and another as Dr. Watson. The group discusses their presence as part of a private investigation.
“The house seems as full as a rabbit, Warren.” 43:19 · “Why, if it isn't Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the amateur.” 43:29 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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