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; 8 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 45:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 277–280. 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
- man in dark suit and hat, bending over, examining ceiling visible
- man in dark suit, standing, observing p1 visible
- bald man in dark coat, back to camera visible
- Holmes (named at t:45:47): man in light suit, standing, speaking visible, audible
- man seated, wearing bow tie visible
- man in uniform, implied by title 'Sergeant' audible
- Thaddeus Sholto (named at t:45:43): man named Thaddeus Sholto, mentioned and addressed mentioned, audible
- Mordecai Smith (named at t:46:24): man named Mordecai Smith, mentioned mentioned
- Seen happening
- A man in a hat examines the ceiling area near a ladder. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit observes another man examining the ceiling. [frame:2]
- A bald man faces another man in a hat. [frame:3]
- A man in a light suit stands over a seated man. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “to the roof.” 45:30 · “Mr. Thaddeus Sholto, I must ask you to accompany me to the station.” 45:54
- Seen
- ladder, trapdoor, lamp, rope, wine can, hat, suit, bow tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: detective work, arrest, clue discovery, suspicion; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, minimal set decoration
A man in a suit and hat examines a ceiling area while another observes; a trapdoor is referenced. A character named Thaddeus Sholto is arrested by a sergeant, and another character, Holmes, mentions visiting Mordecai Smith.
“The only question is... How did he depart?” 45:12 · “There's a trap door.” 45:28 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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