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 55:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 318–323. 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, reading papers visible
- Mr. Holmes (named at t:55:47): man in dark coat and cap, standing, pointing finger visible, audible
- woman with short curly hair, dark dress, standing, holding a cane visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit sits reading papers in a room. [frame:1]
- A man in a cap enters and points at the seated man. [frame:2]
- A woman enters the room holding a cane. [frame:3]
- The man in the cap and the man in the suit stand facing each other. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Because I know she's done the murders.” 55:54 · “I come here for the reward.” 56:02
- Seen
- desk lamp [frame:1], papers [frame:1], cane [frame:3], cap [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, accusation, reward-seeking; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of early 1930s studio productions
A man in a suit sits reading in a room; another man in a cap enters and confronts him. A woman enters and speaks, then the two men face each other as one points. The transcript indicates a tense exchange about murders and a reward, with one man claiming to be sent by Mr. Holmes.
“Mr. Holmes.” 55:47 · “told me to come here.” 55:48 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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