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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 44:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 271–274. 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, dark coat, hat, holding a small object, standing visible
- Mr Holmes (named at t:44:27): man, dark suit, seated, hand to chin, looking thoughtful visible
- woman, light dress, hat, standing visible
- man, dark suit, standing, leaning forward visible
- man, dark suit, seated, profile view visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a hat stands holding an object in a dim room. [frame:1]
- Three people stand together, one man leans toward a seated man. [frame:2]
- A man in a hat stands behind a seated man. [frame:3]
- A man in a suit sits with his hand to his chin. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Yes?” 44:29 · “On which Thaddeus makes all for the money. Eh, then on which the dead man very considerately gets up and locks the door on the inside.” 44:34
- Seen
- lamp [frame:1], hat [frame:1], small object [frame:1], chair [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and contemplative; themes: mystery, inheritance, suspicion; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, formal attire, period interior
Three people are shown in a dimly lit interior, discussing a mystery involving a dead man and inheritance. One man, identified by dialogue as Mr. Holmes, is present and listening; another man is seated and speaking.
“Sherlock Holmes will never rest until this mystery solved.” 44:22 · “What do you think of this theory, Mr Holmes?” 44:27 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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