Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:01:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 79 · shots 374–375. 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 wearing dark coat and hat, seated, leaning forward visible
- man wearing light shirt and dark trousers, standing, pointing with right hand visible
- figure in dark coat, back to camera, near counter visible
- figure in dark coat, standing beside p3 visible
- Professor (named at t:61:46): unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a dark coat sits at a table while another man in a light shirt stands and points at him. [frame:1]
- Two figures stand near a counter and a tall clock in a dim interior. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Call again tomorrow, I'll do a nice race for you, but after you.” 61:43 · “Thank you, Professor. You did it anyway.” 61:46
- Seen
- table with lamp, tall clock, counter, painting on wall
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: negotiation, deception, urban setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, minimal set dressing
Two men are in a room with a table and lamp; one is seated, the other standing and pointing. In another shot, two figures stand near a counter and a tall clock in a dimly lit interior. A voice thanks a professor and mentions a trolleybird and a race.
“Yes, that was it. Yes.” 61:36 · “Trolleybird.” 61:40 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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