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 28:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 188–191. 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:28:54): man in dark suit, bow tie, holding pipe, clean-shaven, mid-adult visible, audible
- man in dark suit, mustache, standing, mid-adult visible
- Miss Morstan (named at t:28:52): woman seated, dark hair styled up, wearing light-colored dress with lace, mid-adult visible
- Seen happening
- Man p1 holds pipe and speaks with serious expression. [frame:1]
- Man p2 stands beside seated woman p3, both looking toward p1. [frame:2]
- Man p1 continues speaking, pipe still in hand. [frame:3]
- Man p2 and woman p3 remain seated/standing, listening. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “But it grieves me to think, Watson, that you've never read my treatise on the physical and mental reactions of the disabled.” 28:54 · “Amputation.” 29:06
- Seen
- pipe [frame:1], wooden cabinet with glass doors [frame:1], small statue on cabinet [frame:1], patterned curtain [frame:2], upholstered chair [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and academic; themes: medical discourse, social propriety, intellectual authority; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, staged interior setting
A man in a suit and bow tie speaks while holding a pipe, addressing another man and a woman seated nearby. The conversation references a treatise on physical and mental reactions after amputation and mentions Miss Morstan.
“I not only resent your making me appear ridiculous,” 28:49 · “before Miss Morstan.” 28:52 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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