Interior
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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 48:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 286–287. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- interior (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in overcoat, seen from behind, adjusting his coat visible
- man in dark suit and bow tie, facing camera, standing still visible
- Watson (named at t:48:47): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Watson' and 'Inspector Jones' audible, mentioned
- Miss Morstan (named at t:48:49): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Miss Morstan' mentioned
- Mordecai Smith (named at t:48:41): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Mordecai Smith' mentioned
- Seen happening
- A man adjusts his coat while another man stands facing him. [frame:1]
- A dark alley at night is shown with a lit streetlamp and silhouettes of people. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “to assign several of his men to guard Miss Morstan day and night.” 48:56 · “yes protecting miss morston's no small task” 49:10
- Seen
- overcoat, bow tie, streetlamp, brick wall
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: crime, protection, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, shadowy alley scene
Two men converse in a dim interior while another scene shows a dark alley at night with a streetlamp. One man instructs another to guard a woman named Miss Morstan, referencing a criminal named Mordecai Smith and requesting police assistance.
“No, Watson, no.” 48:47 · “You asked for the job of looking after Miss Morstan, so see that you'll do it.” 48:49 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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