Living room
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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 24:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 155–163. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Mr. Holmes (named at t:25:26): man in dark suit and bow tie, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
- Miss Mawson (named at t:24:40): woman seated, dark hair, light dress, mid-adult visible, audible
- man seated, dark suit, mustache, mid-adult visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man stands and gestures while speaking to two seated people. [frame:1]
- The standing man looks upward with an expressive face. [frame:2]
- The standing man looks down, appearing thoughtful. [frame:3]
- The standing man leans toward the seated man and woman, continuing to speak. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Uh, Andaman Islands, was it?” 25:20 · “You'll learn to expect such amazing things from Mr. Holmes.” 25:26
- Seen
- lamp, curtains, statue, framed picture, sofa
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and inquisitive; themes: mystery, investigation, personal history; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period interior decor
A man in a suit speaks to a seated woman and another man in a room with curtains and a lamp; he mentions a story about a missing captain and the Andaman Islands. The transcript includes dialogue about being followed and a reference to Mr. Holmes.
“Miss Mawson, tell me.” 24:40 · “A number of years ago, my father, Captain Mawson,” 25:04 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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