Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 21:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 125–126. 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
- Watson (named at t:22:01): man with mustache, wearing dark suit and bow tie, seated, holding papers visible, audible
- man with mustache, wearing dark suit, seated, leaning forward, writing visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man with a mustache sits in a chair holding papers. [frame:1]
- A second man leans forward writing while the first man watches. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Me? The finest audience in the world.” 22:04 · “How could you possibly know what I've been thinking?” 22:13
- Seen
- papers, desk, pen, chair
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and conversational; themes: deduction, friendship, amazement at intellect; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period interior
Two men are seated in a room; one speaks about shooting a tiger and being remarkable, while the other reacts. The dialogue suggests one man is explaining his deductions to the other, who expresses amazement.
“You certainly shot that tiger clean through the head.” 21:50 · “You're a very remarkable man, Watson.” 22:01 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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