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 28:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 181–184. 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:3
- People
- man, mustache, dark suit, white shirt, tie, medium build, 30s-40s visible
- man, balding, light-colored sweater or cardigan, seated at desk with telephone visible
- man, dark suit, standing, back to camera visible
- woman, dark dress, seated on sofa visible
- unspecified audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit looks down and to his left. [frame:1]
- A man sits at a desk with a telephone and papers. [frame:2]
- Three people are in a room: a man stands over a seated woman, another man stands with arms crossed. [frame:3]
- The man in the suit looks down again. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Sir Holmes takes such a delight in provoking my curiosity.” 28:25 · “Well, that by looking at a man's handwriting, he can tell he has but one leg.” 28:32
- Seen
- telephone [frame:2], sofa [frame:3], desk [frame:3], lamp [frame:3], bookshelf [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly exasperated; themes: deduction, mystery, character dynamics; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire, period interior
A man in a suit is shown in close-up and medium shots inside a room with furniture and a telephone; another man speaks about Holmes deducing a person has one leg from handwriting. No names are spoken that can be attached to the visible individuals.
“An opponent to be reckoned with.” 28:18 · “And he's only one leg.” 28:22 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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